The United States is the ‘land of opportunities’ for those who have the skill and the discipline to achieve something big in life. According to the US Census Bureau 2022 data, the poverty rate in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I think the most interesting aspect of this report is the different directions the two measures of poverty went in 2023. On one ...

The start of the second half of 2025 brings significant changes to the poverty guidelines in the United States, which could impact the eligibility of millions for federal assistance programs. The ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to afford their basic needs. But this is a problem we can actually solve. With a ...

MIT researchers found the federal government is not funneling money to households that most need assistance with energy costs. A key federal program aiming to help disadvantaged households is not ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

The two presidential candidates can both point to records of pushing poverty rates down, but their approaches could hardly be more different. By Jason DeParle Jason DeParle, who covers poverty issues, ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...

The number of Americans living in poverty, according to the nation’s official definition, fell slightly to about 36.8 million in 2023, the Census Bureau announced on Sept. 10, 2024. The data released ...