As climate change causes the plant to warm and people crank up their air-conditioning, Americans are spending increasingly more money on their energy bills. This means more people are experiencing ...

For one San Diego woman, it’s losing the government benefits that helped feed her family because she got a $1 an hour raise. For another, it’s feeling like you’re not quite drowning, but always ...

Forty-two million Americans receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (also known as food stamps). Twelve percent of the population. To be eligible, household gross income must ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — If you look at the numbers, both Ohio and the city of Toledo are above the national average when it comes to poverty. At the Main Library in downtown Toledo, the Bridges Out of Poverty ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Have you ever heard of transport poverty? Chances are, you haven’t. It’s been described as “a hidden crisis”, and it impacts ...

The measure of poverty in the United States, a basic basket of essential food items, hasn't changed in almost 60 years. One other stop we need to make before we delve into a look back at the look back ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

Last year, 11.6% of people in the U.S. lived below the federal poverty level, a number that has ticked up in recent years, according to the Census Bureau. Experts say those numbers may be even higher ...