Brooklyn is the most expensive housing market in the U.S., outpacing San Francisco and even Manhattan last year. But that doesn't mean everybody who lives there is wealthy. Photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein recently profiled Brooklyn residents living blow the poverty line to…
Are you saving for retirement? If not, you might want to start considering it: about one in five New Yorkers over the age of 65 is living in poverty.
Beginning April 1, fewer people in New York will be eligible for food stamps. The state is updating its requirements to be more selective, and food banks across the region are bracing for the change, expecting to see more hungry…
There are perhaps few customs more American than tipping. But what are the social forces behind why customers tip?
Due to low federal minimum wages for tipped workers, many grapple with poverty rates. But some restaurants are pushing to eliminate gratuities in favor of higher hourly wages for workers. NewsHour's Weekend Special Correspondent Alison Stewart reports. This is part…
By Hazel Gurland For millions of people across the nation, food insecurity is a reality faced every day. These men, women, and children eat cheaper, less nutritious foods and often skip meals. Much-needed relief has been offered to the approximately…
Research has long established that wealthy people tend to live longer than the poor, but despite advances that economic ladder has been widening. Dr. Lisa Berkman, of Harvard's Center for Population and Development Studies, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss. This…
Across the US, rising housing costs have caused homelessness to proliferate. We go inside a Long Island homeless shelter and speak to Executive Director Sister Aimee Koonmen as well as current and former residents. The conversation continues with Greta Guarton…
Though LI is one of America’s 10 wealthiest suburbs, lack of access to public transportation hinders those who rely on the system to get to work. Aaron Watkins-Lopez and Dr. Richard Koubek discuss transportation equity and explore what can be…
Displaced tenants in Newark are struggling to find affordable housing units as rents continue to rise and incentivizing private developers to build more housing becomes more difficult.
Founded by the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Stargate Theatre Company immerses court-involved youth in the theater arts as a mechanism for coping with and overcoming negative factors in their lives. In this film, witness the company members as they compose,…
A group of low-income workers in New York City are getting a larger tax refund this year. It’s part of an experiment to see what would happen if the lawmakers expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit, a four-decade-old program with…