The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

A policy of giving out regular, unconditional cash payments is gaining popularity as the cost of living grows and AI looms over the job market.

The U.S. Census Bureau measures poverty by comparing a household’s pre-tax income to a set poverty threshold. This threshold is the amount of money needed to cover basic needs. While some states have ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down businesses and sent workers home, the government stepped in with stimulus payments that were intended to keep families afloat financially during an unprecedented ...

Fewer than 10% of Marylanders live below the poverty line, but in Baltimore, the ratio is much higher, with one in five people living in poverty. There is no shortage of reasons why the rate in the ...

Sasaki is president and CEO of United Way of San Diego County. She lives in Clairemont. Who do you think of when you envision a family living in poverty? The response may have been different a few ...

For the first time since 2010, the poverty rate in America shot up dramatically in 2022, according to data from the Census ...

Poverty may have declined slightly in Dayton last year, but the Gem City still has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation among mid- to large-sized urban areas, a Dayton Daily News analysis ...

Can you imagine having to regularly miss work or school because of a regular biological function? What about risking your health because the items you need to manage this function are not affordable?