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

Financial analyst Michael Green suggests the official poverty line of $32,000 per year for a family of four in the U.S. is nowhere near accurate. He said the actual number is closer to about ...

Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

The poverty line today is still calculated based on a 1963 formula, which Simplify Asset Management's Michael Green believes ...

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

At least from a material perspective, things have never been better for many if not most Americans: Their homes are larger and have more amenities. More of them than ever before have access to basic ...

Houston has a higher percentage of residents living in poverty among the largest cities in the United States, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. One out of five residents — ...

Total falsehoods: "I want for people to recognize a great job that I've done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down," said President Donald Trump on Monday. (The White House ...

The current poverty level – inflation adjusted from that 1963 base – is $31,200 for a family of four. I think we can all ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...