A book detailing poverty in Oklahoma -- and published more than six years ago -- is still an eerily accurate portrait of the state's economic condition, a consultant for the Oklahoma Institute for ...

More Americans are living in difficult circumstances than the official data show, according to a new and sobering gauge of poverty. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

In North Carolina and across the nation, black communities are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. But there has been little consensus about why that may be the case.

A youngster surviving on flavoured milk and noodle broth was hospitalised with malnutrition, which caused a heart condition and led to all her teeth having to be removed. The shocking tale is just one ...