A prominent strategist contends that the real "poverty line" for a family of four is $140,000, not the official threshold of ...

America's poverty line is outdated, based on 1960s math. Updating it shows survival costs near $140,000, exposing how six figures today equals the new poor.

Leading American poverty researcher Mark Robert Rank joins the Utterly Moderate Podcast to discuss his Poverty Risk Calculator and the risk Americans face of experiencing poverty throughout their ...

The Trump administration’s latest reported purge at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may be one of its most consequential yet — silently dismantling the small, crucial office that ...

This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation. Read all of our Day One Agenda articles here. It’s often cited that four out of ten ...

If the guys from Men in Black wiped your memory clean with a neuralyzer and erased the years 2020 and 2021 (which wouldn’t be such a bad idea), you would have greeted yesterday’s release of the Census ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The share of Americans living in poverty shrank to an estimated 9.2% in 2020 ...

Sometimes, numbers don't tell the whole story. At times, they even tell the wrong story. Take Long Island's poverty rate, which in 2022 stood at 5.9%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa --- Roughly 70,000 fewer Iowans are categorized as living in poverty between 2009 and 2011 under an alternative method the federal government is using to measure economic well-being.

When a prostitute attempted suicide in the Ocean Side Inn's parking lot this summer, Barbara Malone decided it was time for her 7-year-old, Charlene, to stay with a relative. But in that moldy motel ...