Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2022, 37.9 million people (11.5% the U.S. population), ...

Ever since Shipler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004), the term working poor has entered the realm beyond industrial sociology. Put rather simply, the working poor ...

The pandemic has been rough for families living on the edge. On a chilly January afternoon, 5-year-old NyAnna House asked her friend Audrey to play. "Let's go outside and ride bikes," she said, ...

As of 2023, a whopping 50% of Rockland County families were living below the poverty line or were the working poor, barely making ends meet, according to a new United Way study. The United Way ...

The moral of this editorial is simple: Never stop fighting for what you believe in, especially in Tallahassee. Despite the odds, keep speaking up. A rare and surprising thing happened at the state ...

Too much month and not enough check plagued the U.S. poor and working class before the federal government shutdown and funding lapse. To wit, business is booming for America’s car repossession ...

Greg and Jodi Perlman have no use for rich people who dither about helping the poor. The Los Angeles couple, whose fortune comes from Greg Perlman’s real estate business, said they see far too many ...

ICE raids continue the capitalistic putdown of the working poor. If the government really wanted to make a better place, they would go into the corporations that hire these folks, and fine them 20 ...