Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is among President Trump's Cabinet heads who try to smile away the economic reality facing American households, but the public isn't buying it, Times columnist Michael ...

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 ...

Democrats in recent years have used concerns about “inequality” to attack free-market capitalism, a system that has created the wealthiest country in the history of the world. But as more ...

The median household income in Marion County was approximately $57,300, with a poverty rate of 15%. About 18% of children under 18 lived below the poverty line, while the rate for those 65 and older ...

New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau provide key insights into the economic well-being of Granite Staters. The American Community Survey’s 2023 state-level data showed that median household ...

Susan Lanham, Amanda Thompson-Abbott, and Tom Norton of Marshall University discuss their research on the earned income tax credit’s effectiveness in alleviating poverty. This transcript has been ...

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted unprecedented policy interventions in the US that provided nearly $3 trillion to support struggling families. This column examines the short-term effects of these ...

More than 72 million people in the EU were classed "at risk of poverty" in 2024, representing 16.2% of the population. Even so, living on the breadline looks vastly different when comparing poverty ...

On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a wealth manager named Michael Green published a Substack post arguing that a $140,000 income is the new poverty level for a family of four in America, where the ...