Discover 10 Black-only towns across the U.S., facing economic struggles and demographic challenges. Explore their median ...

Despite federal reports suggesting a stable labor market, new data from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity ...

most were majority Black or Hispanic. We could see, too, that many places with large Native American populations ranked among the most disadvantaged in the nation. Considerable poverty exists in ...

As a result, the higher levels of poverty we experience disproportionately often leave us at a costly, economic disadvantage in several areas. Black women are uniquely burdened by loan debt crises ...

In a Feb. 27 White House address, Biden said the child tax credit he’d expanded through the American Rescue Plan delivered big results for Black Americans. "We cut Black child poverty in half in ...

And anti-Black labor market discrimination today ... scared and worry about how far their kids might fall. An America without poverty is not free of problems—or inequality, even.

In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts.

Poverty rate (full weight): The percentage ... The struggle for economic equity remains a persistent challenge for Black women in America, who have historically faced systemic wage disparities ...

If American poverty persisted, I thought ... In the 1930s, many unions outwardly discriminated against Black workers or segregated them into Jim Crow local chapters. In the 1960s, unions like ...

Black children living in poverty face increased instances of stress and trauma that can alter their brain development, a new study found. The study was published this week by the American Journal ...