Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

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 ...

Research released last year by the Census Bureau found that the official U.S. poverty rate was 11.5% across the United States in 2022, the most recent year data are available. That was little changed ...

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

The opening pages of The Other America set out the problem: There was a “familiar America” of postwar prosperity, of televisions and radios and automobiles and suburban homes, and then there was a ...

The City of New York hit another milestone last week in its underlying ongoing crisis: poverty. This marker came in the form ...

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 ...

The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental detail of my ...

In this article, we look at 25 states with the lowest poverty rates in America. You can skip our detailed analysis on poverty in the United States, and head over directly to the 10 States with the ...

Siti lives in South Philadelphia with her husband and two children. They have trouble keeping pace with inflation, she says. (Emma Lee/WHYY) This story is from Young, Unhoused and Unseen, a podcast ...