Lifting 100,000 residents out of poverty should be lauded as a monumental achievement, not met with hand-wringing over what ...

In Enfield, North Carolina, where families often face sky-high energy bills, Mayor Mondale Robinson is rallying residents and allies to reimagine what's possible. His ambitious plan — beginning with a ...

Stacker used data from the Census Bureau's 2024 1-year American Community Survey to rank the poorest states by median household income.

The apocryphal headline and its report of a struggling St. Louis still exists in the New York Times’ archives: In St. Louis ...