poverty

A higher percentage of Kentucky women face dire economic straits than in most other parts of the country, according to research on the status of women.The…

The federal government has been measuring poverty the same way since the 1960's. It does not take into account where a family lives and does not adjust…

Here's a sobering statistic from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, nearly half the kids across America are growing up in low-income families. A new report…

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on Friday (April 25) called President Johnson’s 1964 declaration of a “War on Poverty” a noble undertaking.Huckabee…

Kentucky Congressman John Yarmuth says the House of Representatives should re-commit itself to the War on Poverty by passing a three-month extension of…

The number of African Americans living below the poverty line in Kentucky increased in 2012, while the rest of the state’s poverty data showed little or…