Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

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

Michael Green’s call to expand the poverty line to $140K reignites a debate over what economic strain really means today.

The real cost of living in America is far higher than the federal poverty line suggests. Here’s why experts argue the true ...

In the real world, official measures show poverty fell from 19.5% in 1963 to 10.5% in 2019, said Michael R. Strain in National Review. And over the past 30 years, inflation-adjusted wages for “typical ...

A federal bill that would raise the poverty line to better reflect modern costs was reintroduced by U.S. Rep. Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, according to his office. Mullin first introduced the ...

The Trump administration’s latest reported purge at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may be one of its most consequential yet — silently dismantling the small, crucial office that ...

Can you afford to live in Mississippi? Most people need to make more than the federal minimum wage to afford groceries and pay bills without help. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's living ...

Nearly half of Hampton households cannot afford basic necessities, and most are making too much money to receive benefits, according to a new report from the city’s Economic Empowerment and Family ...