poverty

Hoosiers who are unemployed can receive no more than 390 dollars a week for up to six months. The Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute believes the program's length and weekly benefit cap should increase to help people meet their basic needs while searching for a job.

Roughly 175,000 Hoosier children under the age of 18 are at risk of slipping back into poverty or deeper into poverty if the expanded federal child tax credit ends after December.

The "Bridge the Gap" loan program works to create better financial literacy and help pull residents out of poverty.

Indianapolis's Far Eastside has dealt with years of social disadvantage. Now the pandemic magnifies those inequities, and all of that can fuel violent crime.

Economists at three universities, including Notre Dame, closely follow federal data on household income each month and update their findings online.

Endowment leaders said they developed the initiative after U.S. Census data showed nearly 20 percent of Marion County residents are facing poverty.

CEO of the IndyChamber Michael Huber says there are two realities in Indianapolis. One is a growing economy, the second is a reality of economic limitations.

Under a new model that will be phased in over two years, United Way will accredit organizations, which can then apply for funding based on United Way's poverty-fighting goals.

Police made scores of similar arrests in Missouri, North Carolina and Washington, D.C.

Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.