The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released ...

Poverty in the United States fell last year, even amid the impact of the pandemic, due to government aid, including relief payments and unemployment insurance. That's according to new data just ...

(CNN) — The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. A mother and son living in a Walmart parking lot in North Dakota in 2012.Credit...Eugene Richards Supported by ...

Amid the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and an economic recession, government aid in the form of stimulus checks and boosted unemployment payouts helped push the supplemental U.S. poverty rate down ...

There was a two-fold increased odds (adjusted OR, 2.33; 95% CI, 1.86 to 2.91) of having fair/poor health for low-income cancer survivors compared with higher-income cancer survivors. There was an ...

As pandemic subsidies disappeared, wages kept workers just ahead of inflation, although gaps have widened for some groups.

U.S. poverty fell overall in 2020, a surprising decline largely due to the swift and substantial federal relief that Congress enacted at the start of the pandemic to try to prevent widespread ...

How would you summarize the effects of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on poverty? We estimate that between 88 million and 115 million additional people will be pushed into extreme poverty in 2020, bringing ...

About one in four Asian adults in New York City lived in poverty in 2020 — a rate that is significantly higher than the citywide average, according to a report released today by Robin Hood, a local ...

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