The Census Bureau’s new annual report on poverty found that 44 million Americans lived in poverty last year, including 10 million children. As a percentage of the population, overall poverty stayed ...

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, ...

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 ...

Axios Visuals Detroit's poverty rate recently hit its highest point in seven years, per new census data, even as incomes are rising for local residents. Why it matters: Poverty is the issue most ...

% 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 ...

We asked teachers about how students are doing at their school. Overall, many teachers hold negative views about students’ academic performance and behavior. Teachers in elementary, middle and high ...

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 ...

More than 1 in 3 children who grew up in low-income families in the 1980s didn’t make it out of poverty by their 30s. If children in poverty today follow the same trajectory, more than 24 million ...