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

What’s the most significant news? I think the most interesting aspect of this report is the different directions the two measures of poverty went in 2023. On one hand, the official poverty measure ...

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – nearly 40 million – live in poverty. It's... The Roots of Poverty in America The United States is one ...

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40% of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a body mass ...

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. So begins “Poverty, by America,” the latest bestselling book by Matthew Desmond, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for another bestseller, ...

American households earning well into the middle six figures increasingly say they feel squeezed, not secure, as housing, ...

The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental detail of my ...

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reports that poverty in Latin America fell to a historic low of 27.3% in 2023. This marks a 1.5% decrease from 2022 and a 5% decline ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social scientists ...

Matthew Desmond’s experiences growing up in poverty prompted him to take a stand as a poverty abolitionist. “Ending poverty is gonna require new policies and new political movements, but it also will ...

To continue growing the middle class, Congress and the Biden administration should learn from what worked in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated recession that led to ...