New research from the Urban Institute credits stimulus checks, federal unemployment benefits, and bigger food stamps with a sizable drop in poverty.

Millions of American families fell into poverty last year as the well of government-funded pandemic aid dried up and incomes shrank, according to new data from the U.S. Census. Children were ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...

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User-Created Clip by ahedrick2 September 25, 2015 2015-09-20T08:51:27-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/0de/20150920085139001_hd.jpgShows the poverty happening in ...

It’s a sobering statistic: half of all public students in the country are economically disadvantaged. That’s the headline that came out earlier this year, prompted by a report from the Southern ...

Although the number of people living in extreme poverty decreased to 5.1 million between 2009 and 2023, 10.8 million, almost ...

According to her, the survey will be completed by the end of this year and it would help identify the poverty level as well as the unemployment graph in the country, she added. 'This survey would be ...