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 ...
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, ...
New research from the Urban Institute credits stimulus checks, federal unemployment benefits, and bigger food stamps with a sizable drop in poverty.
Poverty in New York state continues to outpace national levels and those of neighboring states, with racial minorities and other historically marginalized groups bearing the heaviest burden, according ...
President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans ...