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

1 Wall Street strategist thinks the poverty line for US families is woefully out of date. You won't believe how high he ...

A prominent strategist contends that the real "poverty line" for a family of four is $140,000, not the official threshold of $32,150. Created in the 1960s, the formula used to calculate the poverty ...

“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 ...

Michael Green’s call to expand the poverty line to $140K reignites a debate over what economic strain really means today.

Affordability discourse is useless if it's not accurate, and politicians should strive to accurately describe Americans' ...

Financial analyst Michael Green suggests the official poverty line of $32,000 per year for a family of four in the U.S. is ...

Michael Green, Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager at Simplify Asset Management, wrote a provocative Substack essay, Part 1: My Life Is A Lie, that is sparking a debate among economists and raising ...

A new report from the National Academy of Sciences seeks to redefine poverty. The NAS presents the effort as a matter of science: “An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how ...

About 20% of Long Island households are structurally poor, but many earn too much to be counted below the federal government's poverty line, according to a new report by the Suffolk County Legislature ...

Government regulations may make the cost of housing unacceptably expensive, but the majority of Americans are not living below the poverty line.