More older Americans were living in poverty in 2024, new data on income, poverty, and health insurance released by the Census Bureau shows. According to the supplemental poverty measure, which takes ...

In his State of the Union address in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson famously called for “an unconditional war on poverty.” Since then, according to the Census Bureau, the proportion of Americans with ...

Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and a National Book Critics Circle award. His ...

Over 50% of Americans think homelessness and poverty is a growing problem nationwide. Respondents to a new AP-NORC/Harris poll are divided on the cause of homelessness. However, there is agreement ...

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 ...

A Nepalese immigrant in his early 40s described the stress and uncertainty he felt during college about how to afford rent, food and tuition despite having a scholarship. A man of Hmong origin in his ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans could be pushed into poverty next year, according to a recent analysis by Yale University's Budget Lab. In its latest trade policy update, the research center found ...

However, Trump leaves out that his opponent, President Joe Biden, saw both of those record lows surpassed on his watch. As President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump vie for Black voters’ ...

NEW YORK, NY – A recent Pew survey has highlighted the socioeconomic disparities within the Asian American community, with Indian Americans and Filipino Americans emerging with the lowest poverty ...