Poverty

Results vary from city to city, but it's rare for a charter school to cause black students to learn less, on average. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Beltway Confidential

How school choice helps black students

January 26, 2016 8:37 pm

Oxfam, Schmoxfam

Ike Brannon -

January 19, 2016 9:18 pm

Politics

GOP lawmaker wants lottery winners off Medicaid

Curt Mills -

January 13, 2016 11:10 pm

Now, government is training its fire on the few sources of mortgage credit available to low-income buyers. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Op-Eds

How the Federal Housing Finance Agency hurts the poor

Brian McNicoll -

January 13, 2016 5:02 am

Ryan to Host ‘Poverty Fighters’ and Little Sisters of the Poor for State of the Union

Daniel Halper -

January 11, 2016 6:23 pm

GOP admitted they often don't know how to convince low-income Americans conservative ideas can help them. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

Politics

Republicans agree they need to improve anti-poverty efforts

Paige Winfield Cunningham -

January 9, 2016 8:07 pm

Republicans last took the lead on welfare reform two decades ago and hope to do it again this year, kicking off the effort at a major anti-poverty forum Saturday in Columbia, S.C., hosted by Paul Ryan and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. (AP Photo)

Politics

Can Republicans take on poverty?

Susan Ferrechio -

January 9, 2016 5:01 am

Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush unveiled an aggressive plan on Friday to reform welfare policy. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Campaigns

Bush proposes moving welfare, food stamps to states

Joseph Lawler -

January 8, 2016 8:59 pm

According to the Food Research Action Center, SNAP participation averaged 45.5 million people in September 2015, a decrease of almost 1.1 million compared with September 2014. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Up to 1 million may lose food stamp benefits in 2016

Kelly Cohen -

January 6, 2016 10:08 pm

Fifty-eight percent of the cities surveyed reported an increase in the total number of homeless persons. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Report: Hunger, homelessness on the rise in major U.S. cities

Kelly Cohen -

December 22, 2015 7:34 pm

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Tag: Poverty

How school choice helps black students

Oxfam, Schmoxfam

GOP lawmaker wants lottery winners off Medicaid

How the Federal Housing Finance Agency hurts the poor

Ryan to Host ‘Poverty Fighters’ and Little Sisters of the Poor for State of the Union

Republicans agree they need to improve anti-poverty efforts

Can Republicans take on poverty?

Bush proposes moving welfare, food stamps to states

Up to 1 million may lose food stamp benefits in 2016

Report: Hunger, homelessness on the rise in major U.S. cities

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