Federal officials have released a new report on national poverty statistics which shows how many people are living in or near ...

Yale University has warned that the impact of tariffs on prices could push as many as 875,000 Americans into poverty.

More older Americans were living in poverty in 2024, new data on income, poverty, and health insurance released by the Census ...

New census data show how poverty in America looked before the Trump administration’s megabill made historic cuts to Medicaid ...

Poverty is down in Kentucky, new federal data shows, though the percent of Kentuckians living in poverty exceeds the national ...

We learned Tuesday that a record number of Americans are living in poverty, and that the poverty rate--15.1 percent--rose for the fourth straight year. But those raw numbers leave out some key details ...

Tariffs disproportionately slam low-income Americans, who already live paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to lose out on ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self-image of ...

Philadelphia has shed its label as the "poorest big city in America." Why it matters: The city's decadeslong fight against ...