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On Tuesday’s edition of NPR’s “Marketplace” podcast, host Kai Ryssdal, Correspondent Mitchell Hartman, and Morning Consult Senior Economist Kayla Bruun stated that despite the rate of inflation easing, low-income earners “are still playing economic catch-up and coming from way behind

Biden’s Treasury has issued a plan requiring the agency in charge of the nation’s fiscal infrastructure to consider race in all policies.

Data on the market supply of baby formula reveals the shortage is getting worse, especially in the south and southwest United States, with low-income families suffering most.

The coronavirus pandemic solidified the idea people don’t have to show up at an office to get work done. That fresh reality has led to a growing number of people relocating to more affordable cities across the country.

Social justice activists in California are promoting efforts in the state to end single family home neighborhoods by increasing density.

A California law also developers to bypass local input and regulatons to build huge, multi-family properties that include low-income units.

The Livermore, California, city council has voted to build 130 homes only available to people with lower incomes in the downtown area.

Oakland wants to make single-family home neighborhoods more “diverse” by inserting low-income, multi-family units into those communities.

Berkeley, California, is considering a plan to end zoning for single-family homes by December 2022.

Democrats in Connecticut are hoping private sector insurance companies will help them expand health care in the state by having the businesses subsidize coverage not only for low-income residents but for migrants who are living in the state illegally.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) threw some not-so-subtle shade at Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday when he introduced a bill that would allow the government to charge big corporations for the federal welfare programs its low-income workers use.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed four bills in Fresno on Wednesday that purport to help “disadvantaged,” low-income and minority communities benefit from efforts to fight climate change.

Israel has some of the widest gaps in wealthy nations between children from middle household income levels and those from lowest income levels, a new UN study found.

Led by an activist, left-wing teacher, high school students at Chicago’s Roosevelt public high school recently engaged in a boycott aimed at changing the way school lunches are made and delivered to kids in the Chicago public school system.

In contrast to the growing number of foreigners coming to the United States to attend college, a review of federal data finds that Americans are studying abroad at a lower rate.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says the cost of Obamacare’s benchmark plans will increase by 7.5 percent starting in January 2016.

Select San Diegans will receive federal government housing subsidies along with 42-inch HDTVs, cable, Internet and on-site services upon taking up residence at the newly constructed $50 million dollar Alpha Square low-income housing project in the city’s trendy East Village neighborhood.

Texas taxpayers wasted $37 million on a failed state program intended to help low-income middle schools cut student obesity rates through physical fitness, according to new study by the University of Texas at Austin.

Capitalizing on his huge expansion of the Obamaphone program that gave millions of low-income Americans a free cell phone, President Obama is now angling to give millions of Americans free Internet access.

It appears the low information youth vote has no idea how fabulously wealthy Hillary Clinton is.

The former president of Trader Joe’s opened Daily Table as a non-profit grocery store in Boston’s “Southie” neighborhood of Dorchester. It offers high quality “sell-by date” and surplus food at huge discounts to help low-income grocery shoppers.

According to the U.S. Department of Education (USED), while 75 percent of the fastest-growing careers require post-high school education and training, more than half of middle class students who start college fail to earn a bachelor’s degree within six to eight years.

A report found that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave away $37 million that was meant for housing subsidies for the poor to those who weren’t eligible for the program.