Ever since Shipler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004), the term working poor has entered the realm beyond industrial sociology. Put rather simply, the working poor ...

Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2022, 37.9 million people (11.5% the U.S. population), ...

It shouldn't come as a surprise. In a city that converted the common cup of joe into a high-priced addiction, a city that sports glittering stadiums and gleams with software millionaires, a city that ...

It was the war cry of an Obamacare foe, uttered during a debate on the law convened by South Carolina Republican Rep. Robert Inglis in 2009. In response, Inglis politely informed his constituent that ...

What happened to the American dream? The belief that through hard work families can give their children a more comfortable life than generations before them. We work harder today than ever before with ...

The proposed changes to Medicaid are part of a comprehensive legislative package driven by House Republicans. This bill aims to offset the costs of significant tax cuts and other provisions, with ...

Low-income Mississippi residents face significant challenges in accessing affordable health care. In 2021, Mississippi had the fifth-highest uninsured rate in the country. Today, nearly one-in-five ...

The novel coronavirus hit the United States in February of 2020 and is causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 is not the same as the coronaviruses that commonly circulate among humans ...