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Cleveland has passed Detroit to become the mid-to-large-sized city with the highest poverty rate in country, according to new annual U.S. Census Bureau estimates released this week. Both cities have seen their poverty rates fall over the past few years, but in 2019, Detroit caught up with its smaller Midwest peer. At 30.8 percent, Cleveland’s poverty rate is just 0.2 percentage points higher than the Motor City’s, a difference within 2 percent the margin of error.

Median household income jumped to $68,700 in 2019, the highest since record-keeping began in 1967. Many of those gains have likely been erased this year, as the pandemic left tens of millions jobless.

The Serum Institute of India , the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines, is already preparing to produce a COVID-19 vaccine once it's developed. But...

Fewer jobs were added to the economy last month even as the unemployment rate fell to 8.4%. Job growth has slowed since June in a sign of what could be a long and painful recovery from the recession.

Each year in the U.S. around 500,000 people die from Alzheimer’s Disease, and it’s estimated that around 5.8 million people are currently living with...

Officials have ordered evacuations for nearly 8,000 people in southern California, as the state continues to grapple with a rapidly growing number of COVID-19 cases.

There's a long waiting list to get into public housing in Cleveland. At last count, the list ran to about 19,000 people. That's about one out of 20 city residents, all waiting to get apartments at places like Woodhill Homes. And the number doesn't include the Housing Choice Voucher program, formerly Section 8, where people get a subsidy to rent an apartment on the private market. Another 10,000 people wait on the list for that.

Updated Saturday Nov. 14 at 8:20 p.m. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says, in consultation with the U.S. Coast Guard, that the Ohio River beneath...

Ohio's Medicaid program, which provides health insurance for more than 2.8 million low-income residents, doesn’t work for everyone, according to a recent survey. The system isn’t easy to access online and wait times are long, said Jessie Herzfeld, a self-employed artist who receives Medicaid benefits and participated in the study. “Everything, every year, has been really frustrating and stressful,” Herzfeld said.

For the first time in several years, an Ohio Department of Transportation panel has voted to move forward on hundreds of millions of dollars in road…