Medicaid. Social Security. Housing aid. Threats from the Trump administration to shrink America’s social safety net raise many far-reaching, serious questions: What is a government’s ...

A country rich in resources yet burdened by deprivation reflects a fundamental failure of distribution, not production.

The stay-at-home mom suddenly left her husband and children behind because she felt 'empty.' "I am a stay-at ... that if I found even one dirty plate left behind, I’d leave and go stay with ...

“Then we look for license plates ... The eldest child is 5. Chavez worries that he’s starting to catch on to their ruse. Behind the fear in the Central Valley, behind the smaller classes and empty ...

about children who should be in school but are instead searching for food. It’s about parents who go to bed with empty stomachs unsure of where their next meal will come from. “The lines of ...

It marked the beginning of an absence with my children that I didn't know how ... my son asked once, chewing with his eyes glued to his plate. I hadn't, and he knew it. Those afternoon outings ...

Nearby, a circle of cushioned reading chairs surround a coffee table with a plate of cookies. Off to the right is a largely empty twilit ... talking about partners, children, vacations.

Somehow, this simple act of support for me and her granddaughter seemed beyond her, and she got up and walked away, leaving my daughter to recite We’re Going on A Bear Hunt out loud to an empty room .

Customers, including children, decide at their tables whether to use the spicy substance. In another video, a man takes a plate off the ... every table, even empty ones, had such bowls.

The numbers are staggering, but behind each statistic is a child facing malnutrition, a farmer watching their crops drown in floodwaters, and a mother rationing the last handful of rice. A nation on ...