The lead on The Washington Post story was an eye-opener: “For the first-time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

What is the best way for government to measure poverty in Ohio? As some suggest using the cost of goods weighed against ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

When we talk about poverty- you always think about somebody else right? Poor?...Me?...Not me. Well, a report released today says when you look at poverty in terms of ...

Once Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson made several tone-deaf statements about poverty on a May 24 Sirius XM radio broadcast, the folks at Dictionary.com decided to use something ...

The World Bank adjusted its definition of extreme poverty this year by increasing the benchmark of daily expenditure. In 1990, it set the threshold at $1 a day, and that was raised to $1.08 in 1993 ...

The Trump administration is considering adjusting the federal definition of poverty in a way that would reduce eligibility for welfare. The administration solicited public comments Monday on whether ...

Imagine you are an unborn spirit whom God has condemned to a life of poverty but has permitted to choose the nation in which to live. I'm betting that most any such condemned unborn spirit would ...

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he’d been out of work for nearly two years, in this ...

Conservatives have been talking about growing inequality, creating a new lexicon of anti-poverty terminology. But this is just a new way of speaking about the same old policies that will result in ...