The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released ...

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

The goal of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1960s War on Poverty was to bolster economic, health and education resources to improve the lives of families and individuals. During his 1964 State of the ...

Poverty in the United States fell last year, even amid the impact of the pandemic, due to government aid, including relief payments and unemployment insurance. That's according to new data just ...

Sept 14 (Reuters) - Direct cash payments to households and generous unemployment benefits helped to keep millions of Americans out of poverty after the coronavirus pandemic severely disrupted the U.S.

The nation's child poverty rate declined between 2020 and 2021, and, by one measure, fell to a record low, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday in releasing data on median household income, poverty ...

The official rate rose slightly to 11.4%, but the agency says that after accounting for pandemic relief aid, the poverty rate fell to 9.1%. The uninsured population also rose slightly. U.S. poverty ...

About one in four Asian adults in New York City lived in poverty in 2020 — a rate that is significantly higher than the citywide average, according to a report released today by Robin Hood, a local ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Two out of every five students in Syracuse city schools are living in poverty, data recently released by the United States Census Bureau shows. Syracuse City School District ranked ...