Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Who are America's working poor? The official definition is those Americans who spend at least 27 weeks a year in the labor force ...

The overwhelming response to that column was positive. Yet the point was lost on some who, rather than recognize America’s intentional and systemic imbalance in wages, health care, housing costs and ...

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 ...

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies. By Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff The authors are covering how new requirements will reshape ...

As Democrats try to understand why they lost the last presidential election and especially why, according to Roper Exit polls, half of voters with less than $50,000 in family income voted for Donald ...