Equal Pay Day Highlights Discrepancies in Salaries
Equal Pay Day represents the day that women earn as much as their male coworkers made in the previous year, showing the differences in pay rates.
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Community Hope Helps Homeless
Community Hope helped homeless veteran Marcenia Cofield get a place to live for her, her daughter and her five grandchildren.
Spoon Full of Hope Offers Meals to the Community
A community restaurant in Union Beach lets those who can't pay for a meal work for it.
Millions of Low-Income Households Burdened by Fuel Insecurity
How widespread is the issue of fuel insecurity, and what assistance is available?
Heat or Hunger? Low-Income Families Struggle to Cope with Winter Weather
In North Carolina, local governments are partnering with private nonprofits to try to find new ways to help poor families stay warm in the winter.
Tracking Poverty in New York City
What does poverty look like in the most expensive city in the U.S.? MetroFocus reports on “The Poverty Tracker,” an ongoing study of why even with income above the federal poverty line thousands of New Yorkers are still struggling.
Will Promise Zone Initiative Lift Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Country out of Poverty?
How the new federal Promise Zones initiative in Kentucky is aiming to boost the economy.
Poverty Rates Surge in American Suburbs
A report on the less visible but growing number of poor in America’s suburbs.