Stories and images of hunger and poverty in the United States

For D.C.’s desperate, a refuge from homelessness is about to disappear

He made a promise to help others. Now he’s giving tents to the homeless . Arnold Harvey began bringing food and clothes to the homeless on his trash route about a decade ago.
Picking peas should bring a better life

A father’s initiative: Paul Gayle had no job, no money, a new baby and 16 lessons from the Obama administration to teach him what to do next

The Price of Nice Nails: Manicurists are routinely underpaid and exploited, and endure ethnic bias and other abuse, The New York Times has found

For Hardee’s workers, it’s not a parable, it’s a job
This powerful Reddit thread reveals how the poor get by in America

Living on the streets of Oakland. The Great Recession may be over, but every night people are sleeping on benches or in makeshift shelters. Here are a few of their stories

Poverty endures in a Texas colonia

Opportunity’s knocks: Tereza Sedgwick is seeing the economy from the bottom up, where the fastest-growing job in America, nursing aide, is also one of the hardest

Fifty years into the War on Poverty, hardship hits back

Ugh. I miss it. Transitioning from military to civilian life and from camaraderie to isolation

Invisible child: Dasani’s homeless life

Caught in unemployment’s revolving door

Meet the American nomads of Walmart’s plentiful parking lots
On the edge of poverty, at the center of a debate on food stamps

Photo: Michael S. Williamson/Washington Post
Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle

Photo: Linda Davidson/Washington Post
In Rust Belt, a teenager’s climb from poverty
In suburbia, a dizzying fall from middle-class grace
Portraits from a job-starved city: A tour through the stores, factories and offices of Rockford, Illinois

Detroit food bank 2010 (photo essay)

Photo: David Bacon.
South of Silicon Valley, hunger haunts California town

Photo: David Bacon
Border communities are ground zero for hunger

Photo: David Bacon
In southwest Virginia, as more need help, aid organization has less to give

Photo: Andrea Morales/New York Times
Ohio town sees public job as only route to middle class

Photo: Annie Tritt/New York Times
Itinerant life weighs on farm workers’ children

Photo: Andrew Spear/New York Times
“Teacher, my dad lost his job. Do we have to move?”

Photo: Washington Post
For migrant worker children, frequent school changes damage learning

Photo: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Across the United States, food stamp use soars and stigma fades–program now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children

Photo: David Pierini/ ChicagoTribune
Homeless students: increasingly, families taking shelter anywhere they can

Photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times
Recession drives surge in youth runaways

Photo: David Bacon
Hungry families sleep on the sidewalk, waiting for food in Hayward California

Photo: Washington Post See article for further pictures
Hungry families sleep on the sidewalk, waiting for food in Hayward California

Photo: L.M. Otero/New York Times
US government plans to overhaul immigration detainee system that currently places 400,000 people each year in 350 jails and prisons

Photo: BBC
Poverty hits African Americans hard
Atlantic City homeless shelter video
Atlantic City homeless shelter video
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