(July 31) – On July 1, the Agriculture Department was supposed to announce the results of a pilot program that could help the poorest Americans eat healthier, The Post’s Rachel Premack reported. The only problem? The program had not even begun.

(July 27) – As the nation’s two parties gather for their nominating conventions, we hear a lot of talk about homeland security, public safety, and economic opportunity. But what we don’t hear much about is the plight of homeless youth in America. Aren’t they entitled to be part of both parties’ visions for a better America? We believe that, given the opportunity, they can be among the brightest stars in our future.

(July 27) – As a young teen, Levi Bohanan was homeless, fending for himself on the streets. “The biggest fight every day wasn’t how I was going to survive, it was deciding whether or not I wanted to,” Bohanan, now 23, tells ABC News. His parents kicked him out of the house because he is gay.

(July 27) – Whether it’s by coincidence or causation, the financial collapse of 2008 and 2009 has resulted in growing angst over income inequality. Millions of workers disappeared from the workforce and have yet to return. This has magnified the gap between households at one end of the income spectrum and the other.

(July 24) – LooLoo Amante had nowhere to live after her freshman year of college, so she bought a Scion with tinted windows and, at just 19 years old, slept in the driver’s seat. She had little money for food, let alone a costly meal plan, so she sometimes asked friends to grab her a banana or apple from the dining hall.

(July 22) – While all eyes were on Ohio this week, we look now at another Cleveland, this one in the Mississippi Delta, where poverty and economic mobility are worse than anywhere else in the developed world. This report is part of our series How the Deck is Stacked.

(July 22) – The United States has the largest economy in the world, but its children aren’t reaping the benefits, according to a new report. On Friday, the non-profit Save The Children released its annual “Child Prosperity Index” report, which evaluates 19 developed nations on a number of criteria to determine whether they are good environments for raising children.

(July 21) – The Republican national platform includes the word “poverty” just 15 times and “poor” four times, though two of those times the word appears in the phrase “poorly managed,” as in the “poorly-managed” Federal Housing Administration. By comparison, “war” is in there 58 times, “freedom” 45, and “America” 286.

(July 20) – Five words in this year’s Republican Party platform speak volumes about today’s political climate. After calling trade “crucial for all sectors of America’s economy,” it goes on to declare: “Massive trade deficits are not.”

(July 20) – In the last year, city officials in New Orleans, Cleveland and Nashville have found themselves scrambling to protect “hire local” policies from their respective state governments. In all three cases, racially diverse cities struggling with high rates of poverty and unemployment sought to stimulate the local economy with provisions that focused on creating job opportunities for disadvantaged residents.