Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

“Our entire safety net is designed to catch people at the very bottom, but it sets a trap for anyone trying to climb out. As ...

Ladywell, in Birmingham, has the highest levels, with 62% of children living in relative poverty. In some areas of Leeds, ...

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

When the state pension age rose to 66, the percentage of 65-year-olds in income poverty more than doubled, new research ...

The claim that a family needs six figures just to avoid poverty sounds like a provocation, but it is rooted in a detailed ...

It would take $318 billion per year, or 0.3% of the world's economic output, to end most extreme poverty worldwide, according to newly published research.

Nine organizations will receive $40,000 each through the New Human Services Partnership between the county and Ann Arbor.

Economists say that a typical middle-class family today is richer than one in the 1960s. Americans in their 20s and 30s don’t ...

That judgment is surely odd. Any poverty-reducing steering of capital needs to ensure some redistribution from the wealthy (be they corporations, countries or individuals) to the poor; and any ...

Built on Inheritance, Not Merit The world is moving from the era of the billionaire to the age of the trillionaire, and the ...

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