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

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 ...

Would it help poverty or hurt the perception of poverty to call a six-figure family “poor”? A recent example of a claim that ...

California has the highest poverty rate in the US, a Census Bureau report shows. The District of Columbia was the only location with a higher rate of poverty than California. Despite this, ...

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 ...

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

America’s poverty level — despite the country’s enormous wealth, vast resources and human talent — is one of the highest among developed countries. Dozens of OECD countries have substantially lower ...

Low-income families often aren't able to take control of their health, despite the fact that many of them have health ...

Students engaged with simulated real-life scenarios designed to illustrate the daily struggles faced by individuals living in poverty. Over 100 middle and high school students from across New Jersey ...

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he’d been out of work for nearly two years, in this ...

In most of the United States, an individual with an annual income of $12,760 or less is classified as living below the poverty line. Though the share of the population living on such low incomes has ...