Rows of houses tucked neatly in this Burlington County suburb are the shining example of the Mount Laurel doctrine done right. The 1983 Supreme Court ruling that created a model for building low- to moderate-income homes in the suburbs has…
Susan Parker says a divorce left her hungry and homeless. “You really can’t even describe the level of devastation you feel when you don’t have a place to sleep, you don’t have a place to take a shower,” she said.
The World Bank recently set the standard for extreme poverty at $1.90 per day, and declared that, for the first time, less than 10 percent of the global population will be living below that line by the end of this…
Mayor Ras Baraka said Newark needs to create 6,000 jobs, just to bring its unemployment rate in line with the rest of the state.
The APN is encouraging all state legislators and Assembly candidates to sign a pledge recognizing that poverty is a problem in New Jersey. By signing the pledge they're also saying they'll work with APN and their partners to advance solutions…
Cumberland County has the highest poverty rate in New Jersey — nearly 20 percent.
At the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, which Pope Francis visited on Sunday, 80 percent of inmates haven’t yet been convicted of any crime. They are being held in this dangerous and overcrowded jail while awaiting trial, mostly because they…
HomeFront, an organization that works with the homeless and working poor, opened a new campus in Ewing that offers services to families and individuals to help them get back on their feet.
More than a million people in New Jersey, including nearly one in every five kids, face hunger every day. The Community Food Bank of New Jersey reports more than half of their clients have to choose between eating and paying…
Which is more important, income inequality or economic mobility? What's the difference, and can the two really be separated? Interview with Scott Winship
A conversation between NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan and Sheldon Danziger, editor of Legacies of the War on Poverty
“We have another 20,000 trying to get into public housing. Many of those are seniors, little kids — and the average wait time’s over 10 years,”