California's poverty rate is once again the highest in the country, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows. What's more, ...

The United States is the ‘land of opportunities’ for those who have the skill and the discipline to achieve something big in life. According to the US Census Bureau 2022 data, the poverty rate in the ...

The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental detail of my ...

The poverty line is a historic relic. And yet, that line determines who gets food stamps. Medicaid. And housing subsidies. “We make these programs difficult to get and we don’t provide a lot of ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty ...

The reality is that poverty is rising in the U.S., and more families live paycheck to paycheck, which increases the risk of ...

New Mexico has a poverty rate higher than the US average. The state ranks as one of the worst states in the nation for poverty among people aged 65 and older. In 2021, the poverty rate in New Mexico ...

The following information was released by the United States Census Bureau: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced that real median household income was $83,730 in 2024, not statistically different ...

This article was originally published in Stateline. The federal pandemic-era child tax credit expansion lifted millions of children out of poverty in the second half of 2021. But Congress allowed it ...

The recently released Poverty in the United States 2024 report from the United States Census Bureau reported that 10.6 percent of the population, or 35.9 ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...