Above-average housing prices are canceling out the impact of antipoverty programs such as SNAP in some states, a Pew Charitable Trusts analysis found.

Data: U.S. Census; Map: Erin Davis/Axios On paper, the poverty rate looks worse in Ohio, West Virginia and Oklahoma than in ...

A recent study argued that building housing could lower state’s poverty rate, currently the second-highest in the U.S. behind ...

Maryland is one of 10 states where high housing costs contribute the most to the state’s poverty level, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, that attributes as much as 21% of ...