Local anti-poverty groups have had to scramble and scale back this year as the Trump administration targeted safety-net ...

One analysis suggests that modern budgets push the effective poverty line far above official levels, revealing why many six-figure earners still feel financially strained.

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

The Mexican government on Friday claimed that for the first time in history more  Mexicans are categorized as middle class ...

The other team aren't the enemy - and supporters should think about that before weaponising poverty in the name of 'banter' ...

An new article published in Social Work in Mental Health outlines the persistent systemic and structural social injustices ...

New research from the Urban Institute credits stimulus checks, federal unemployment benefits, and bigger food stamps with a sizable drop in poverty.

Environmental pollution and poverty are often discussed as separate crises, but they are deeply intertwined, forming a ...

Poverty is an economic state where people are experiencing scarcity or the lack of certain commodities that are required for the lives of human beings like money and material things. Therefore, ...

In his January 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” In the 50 years since ...

For years, state leaders have treated tax cuts as a shortcut to prosperity — but this policy isn’t working and it's leaving ...

Ali Velshi on how Donald Trump's gaslighting address on the economy ignores the struggle for Americans in poverty ...