Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Who are America's working poor? The official definition is those Americans who spend at least 27 weeks a year in the labor force ...

Thanksgiving is a time for us to pause, take stock and give thanks. But gratitude rings hollow if we use it to look away from hardship — especially the kind hiding in plain sight. This year, as ...

—- There are many complications and challenges for the white-collar working poor, but one much-discussed spectre rises above all the others: the swelling student-debt bubble. A majority of students, ...

Congestion relief pricing works. It works in other countries, and despite just being implemented in Manhattan, it's already working there, too. So, of course, a lot of people are mad about it. Can you ...

This week's cover story on the working poor triggered a childhood memory for Journal News reporter Peter D. Kramer To this day, my cheeks burn at the memory of it. A few years after my father's death, ...

The moral of this editorial is simple: Never stop fighting for what you believe in, especially in Tallahassee. Despite the odds, keep speaking up. A rare and surprising thing happened at the state ...

As of 2023, a whopping 50% of Rockland County families were living below the poverty line or were the working poor, barely making ends meet, according to a new United Way study. The United Way ...