poverty

The data show there were 113,000 Mainers below the official poverty level in 2022 through 2024. When you consider government assistance such as SNAP and MaineCare and expenses like housing, health care and childcare, the number falls to 93,000.

The ALICE, or Asset-Limited, Income Constrained, Employed, threshold measures the average income that a household needs to afford basic expenses such as housing, food, health care, transportation and child care.

The initiative, through the Quality Housing Coalition, provided monthly direct payments of $1,000 to 20 low-income women.

Nearly 34,000 Maine children live in households that are below the federal poverty level. As advocates try to assist those families, they've begun to embrace an approach called "two-generation." The idea is to support the needs the children, as well as their parents.

Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalists Kristof and WuDunn join us to discuss their new book, which examines what they call the crisis of the middle class in…

This show is a rebroadcast of an earlier show (original air date October 10, 2019); no calls will be taken.The Poor People’s Campaign, a movement…

The Poor People’s Campaign, a movement originally organized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, comes to Maine on Oct. 10, as part of a 20-state…

Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law two bills that supporters say are aimed at reducing poverty in the state.One measure gives more families access to…

Almost one in five children in Maine lives in poverty. What can be done to break this cycle? We’ll learn about a new initiative that seeks to address the…

LEWISTON, Maine — Seniors are typically the least likely age group to be chronically poor, under the federal government's official formula for measuring…