Rev. William J. Barber has long tackled the issues of race, poverty and hatred through his political activism and his role as Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign. However, COVID-19 has brought to light deep-rooted fissures in our country's treatment…
Low-income Americans are bearing the brunt of COVID-19. Detroit, a city already facing steep economic and racial inequalities, has emerged as a virus hot spot. John Yang reports and talks to the United Way for Southeastern Michigan's Darienne Hudson about…
This Mother's Day, we're presenting our top five stories about supporting mothers across the country.
In rural Wilkesboro, North Carolina, nearly a quarter of residents live in poverty, well above the national rate. Residents there say their needs and concerns are not being discussed in the national political dialogue, which means for some, they won’t…
Trumbull is one of Ohio’s most reliably Democratic counties. But Republican nominee Donald Trump has paid special attention to the region and voters have listened to his message about the economy. John Yang speaks with some voters who see the…
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…
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…
The Urban-Suburban program in Rochester, New York, has given minority children the opportunity to attend schools in the suburbs that have a far larger population of white students. The program is growing, but questions still remain remain about whether the…
Many poor people rely on fringe financial services like check cashing stores and payday lenders, which charge interest rates that can reach the triple digits.
Payday loans are supposed to be a short-term quick fix for those who can’t get traditional credit. But the loans are rarely actually short-term, and borrowers frequently need to take out a second loan to pay off the first. Special…
Millions of Americans live in mobile or manufactured homes that offer affordable housing. But manufactured homeowners often face serious, unique financial difficulties that can make them a bad bargain. NewsHour Weekend's Stephen Fee reports. This is part of an ongoing…
On a moral level, most Americans agree that we should help the poor, but how exactly we go about it has become one of the most divisive issues in politics — and that’s saying a lot these days. The divide…