Since 1963, the United States has been measuring what percentage of its population is in poverty. But it hasn't changed the way it measures poverty since 1963, either. Outside of annual adjustments ...

New metric to measure poverty Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a long-promised alternative method for measuring who’s officially considered poor and who isn’t. The old approach, established 50 ...

In this post I discuss the policy implications of declaring the Supplemental Poverty Measure the new official measure, an action that could be taken unilaterally by the Director of the Office of ...

The way the country defines poverty has ripple effects for people's ability to access government help, including the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, known as WIC. (Justin Sullivan/Getty ...

Last month, the Census Bureau released the official and supplemental poverty measures; both intended to measure hardship in America. For the country as a whole, each measure showed impressive gains, ...

Wonder Land: Citing the president’s age lets Democrats off the hook for the political failure of his economic policies. Images: AP/AFP/EPA/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The credibility of the ...

Defining poverty is more than a “definitional trick” (“Will Biden Cross a Line on Poverty?” by Kevin Corinth, op-ed, May 23). Measuring economic poverty involves estimating a basic-needs budget or ...

This fall the U.S. Census Bureau brought good news when it informed us that the nation’s poverty rate had fallen from 13.2 to 12.7 percent. But now more than ever, we should be suspicious of this news ...

This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation. Read all of our Day One Agenda articles here. It’s often cited that four out of ten ...

Every year at this time, the Census Bureau announces the official poverty rate of the United States. And every year, the same fruitless debate takes place. Some will point to the successes and urge ...

Poverty’s grip on America’s black children has proven strong, as they continue to have the highest poverty rates with no relief in sight, according to a recent Pew Research analysis of Census Bureau ...

This is a subject close to my own heart - I was slightly involved in an earlier iteration of very similar research. The aim is to find out how rich or poor people are in remote or otherwise ...