New Census Bureau data highlights sharp contrasts in poverty across the U.S., with some states reporting rates nearly three times higher than others. Over the three-year period from 2022 through 2024, ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty ...

The Frontline documentary 'Born Poor' follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through their ...

In 2020, more than 37 million Americans lived in poverty according to new data from the U.S Census Bureau. That's 3.3 million more than in 2019. But this number doesn't include those who are above the ...

Lancaster County’s poverty rate dropped from 10.7% during the first half of the last decade to 9.1% in the second half, making it the 12th least-impoverished county in Pennsylvania for the 2016-2020 ...

% of Asian adults adults living near or below the federal poverty line who say they have ever turned to or received assistance from the following for help with bills, housing, food, or searching for a ...

Here's the good news from the Brookings Institute: global poverty of the $1.25 a day or less variety has been on retreat--over half a billion people have made it out of such poverty in the developing ...