poverty

A substantial number of Nevadans live in what’s known as a food desert, where people have limited access to healthy food.They’re typically found in…

A comic takes on the toughest room in the toughest town for standup ... and kills it | World, meet Nevada, at the online Dam Short Film Fest | What the…

More than 108,000 babies up to age 3 call Nevada home. Nearly half are born to families whose income is less than $26,000 a year. That’s according to an…

Advocates often say Las Vegas’ homelessness problem doesn’t get enough attention. But one aspect of it that does is the people who reside in the city’s…

Nevada doesn’t make it easy for kids. It sits at number one in the country for youth homelessness. It’s the sixth-worst state for uninsured children. More…

Two poorly paid Las Vegas attorneys help immigrant children deal with America’s legal system — but the program may be doomed.

The Las Vegas suburbs aren’t the middle-class havens many imagine them to be. In our post-recession world, thousands of suburban residents remain…

About half of those Americans who are raised in poverty stay there as a result, a study by Swedish economists suggests.We dug into the problems of…

LAPD Officer Deon Joseph patrols one of the toughest places in America: Skid Row, a 50-block concentration of drug dealers, gangs, chronically homeless…

Hundreds of needy Nevadans have been waiting more than a month for a response to applications for food stamps, or the SNAP program. The state's poor…