Poverty

The United Way of Delaware and its research partner United for ALICE offer an update on struggling households in the state, and it shows the number struggling is increasing despite wage growth.

The committee also released a bill that would prohibit restricting student participation in extracurriculars due to meal debt and another to factor a year-long residency program into salary calculations for teachers.

The Redding Consortium for Educational Equity is calling for its funding proposals to be recognized in the upcoming state budget. The consortium released…

Mayor Mike Purzycki announced a State of Emergency in the City of Wilmington Friday — following similar moves by Gov. John Carney and President Trump.…

First year residents at Christiana Care got a sense of the challenges faced by those living in poverty on Thursday. For the third year in a row, an…

The state is taking applications for grants from a $1.3 million pool of money set aside to help reduce crime in Delaware communities.The Neighborhood…

Delaware kids living in poverty have a harder time getting through school. That’s why the state has created basic needs closets that students in 45…

Many of the over 180 sites providing food to low-income kids across the state this summer will close their doors Friday – weeks before school resumes. But…

Delaware has one of the nation’s lowest rates of children without health insurance, according to the latest findings in the 2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book from…

Republicans in the General Assembly are seeking to expand a popular state scholarship program.In the weekly GOP message, state senator Brian Pettyjohn…