Gov. Gavin Newsom often boasts that California, if it were a country, would have the world’s fourth-largest economy. But despite its wealth, the state has also seen a sharp increase in poverty since ...

Another study has ranked Louisiana as America's worst state to live in, citing high rates of poverty and poor health among factors determining the ranking. The WalletHub study released Monday compared ...

Stephanie McGuffee isn’t officially poverty-guideline-grade poor, but she’s been on the borderline and she’s worked with enough low-income families to know what it’s like. The single mother of two ...

In a survey of 1,010 students, 70% said that the school environment makes them especially self-conscious of their periods. More than one out of three of the students said that often or sometimes they ...