Kim Bobo at the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy has an idea for how Virginia can better use the $1 billion deemed “available” in Virginia’s budget. Republicans want to throw the billion ...

A pair of new reports by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Penn State explores the contours of school segregation by race and poverty in Virginia over the past decade and reveals how ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Researchers with the Virginia Interfaith Center say they are seeing the impacts of the pandemic on the average worker in their latest report. "We have too many workers and families who ...

A new measurement of poverty in Virginia is challenging conventional views of economic distress in areas such as Northern Virginia and Southwest Virginia The University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper ...

One out of every three city children lives below the poverty level – a figure that ranks among the worst in Virginia, a new report shows. Nearly 34 percent of children in Bristol, Va., live in a ...

A new report shows more and more of Virginia's children are living in poverty. Advocates say government programs are the reason the rate isn’t even higher. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s ...

Growing up in Fairfield Court, a housing project in Richmond’s East End, Samantha Thompson did not know her family was poor. The 12th of 13 children, Thompson had not seen much outside of the ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- In a storage unit in Chesterfield County, Brittany Averette stands by a group of nearly 200 boxes filled to the brim with roughly 2,000 "period kits," ready to be delivered ...

One in three children in Virginia is living in poverty or near-poverty, according to a study from the University of Virginia. Researchers at UVa began a statewide poverty report last year, using a ...

Virginia’s attorney general met with local nonprofit groups in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday for a roundtable listening session about addressing poverty and community needs. “Virginians helping other ...