Last year, 11.6% of people in the U.S. lived below the federal poverty level, a number that has ticked up in recent years, according to the Census Bureau. Experts say those numbers may be even higher ...

A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

California has the highest poverty rate in the US, a Census Bureau report shows. The District of Columbia was the only location with a higher rate of poverty than California. Despite this, ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

Would it help poverty or hurt the perception of poverty to call a six-figure family “poor”? A recent example of a claim that ...

Discover how the International Poverty Line defines global poverty, its critique, and impacts. Learn about its uses and how it differs from the Federal Poverty Level.

America’s poverty level — despite the country’s enormous wealth, vast resources and human talent — is one of the highest among developed countries. Dozens of OECD countries have substantially lower ...

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he’d been out of work for nearly two years, in this ...

Poverty has declined from around 26 percent in the 1960s to around 16 percent in 2012. But the range of change has been relatively flat since 2000, and a closer look at the numbers reveals a ...

Students engaged with simulated real-life scenarios designed to illustrate the daily struggles faced by individuals living in poverty. Over 100 middle and high school students from across New Jersey ...

People walking in the streets of inner city North Philadelphia. The county this city is located in has the highest poverty rate in the state. This time around, we’re looking at the counties in all 50 ...

Otibehia Allen's days in the Mississippi Delta start and end with her five children—three boys and two girls. She feeds them. Clothes them. Their well-being rests on her shoulders. She does it all on ...