Far from being a static issue, the reliance on food assistance varies significantly across states, influenced by a blend of economic factors, poverty rates, and even state-specific policies.

The cognitive effects create a cruel feedback loop. Financial stress leads to poorer mental performance, which lowers educational and professional attainment, which then reinforces economic insecurity ...

Food deserts are areas where people have limited access to healthful and nourishing foods. Poverty and other socioeconomic ... or living far away from sources of healthful and affordable food.

New data shows that while thousands of Kansas children were spared the effects of poverty and food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic, now that those programs have closed kids are again at risk.

The impacts of climate change threaten up to a 50% decline in South Africa’s agricultural production by 2050, growing the ...

Like a growing number of Americans, Freeman struggles with what is known as energy poverty, including the inability to afford utilities to heat or cool a home. Households that spend more than 6% ...

What children in poverty could lose from the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Republicans want to change or reduce key social safety net programs that provide health care, food benefits and financial ...

The Trump administration’s shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) halted the Food for Peace program that bought goods from American farmers and shipped them to ...

Joining them are more than 40 organizations comprised of anti-poverty groups, child care advocates, and food banks determined to modernize the way the federal poverty level is calculated.