With inflation impacting essential expenses like housing, transportation, and food, understanding where your income falls in relation to the poverty line is crucial.

Deregulation, defunding of welfare programs, higher taxes on the poor, and weak labor laws lead to high poverty in the United ...

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama committed the United States to achieving newly adopted U.N. global goals by 2030.

to New York City, work for a salary that doesn’t cover their cost of living. That poverty in the United States is so multifaceted, whether urban or rural, can make it seem daunting to tackle. But some ...

Alabama is one of 20 states with a pink tax, which is a tax on feminine products. This presents a financial barrier to a monthly necessity for women in underserved communities.

The only way to end the increasingly bleak outlook on poverty is actually to fix the housing crisis and not just talk about ...

The US Census Bureau is directed each year to establish a poverty threshold, but there is very little information accessible on what forms part of that calculation other than they increase as the ...

A stronger US economy lifted American household incomes in 2016 and drove the poverty rate down to the level seen before the financial crisis. The median household income increased by 3.2% to US$ ...

This elected official will lead a new office aimed at reducing poverty in Columbus by 50% in the next 10 years.

Research shows a possible return to society of $1.24 for every dollar invested in increasing the JobSeeker rate.

The number of seniors living in poverty on Long Island spiked dramatically over the past decade. oksanamedvedeva - stock.adobe.com The number of elderly folks living in poverty on Long Island ...

For many, the combination of these factors makes escaping the cycle of poverty nearly impossible. Yet for many of us, these numbers remain abstract, as most of us don’t know anyone living in ...