In this blog post, we're going to present another challenge from the decks of challenges we have created for the game, "Bounce Back." This deck is titled, "Being Poor in America." It addresses the ...

April 22, 2004 — -- They do essential jobs but are paid very low wages. They work hard but don’t get ahead. Even tiny setbacks can send them reeling. And when you live paycheck to paycheck, when ...

I spent the first 18 years of my life living in public-housing projects. My childhood was as poor as it gets in America. I’ve also seen what being poor is like in places like Mexico, Colombia, and the ...

Last month, a Wall Street portfolio manager named Michael Green created a bit of a stir with a Substack article headlined, “How a broken benchmark quietly broke America.” His provocative economic ...

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40 percent of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a ...

The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates among wealthy nations. Here’s a look at some struggles kids living in poverty face. Kaylie, pictured in the 2012 documentary “Poor Kids” and the ...