Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is among President Trump's Cabinet heads who try to smile away the economic reality facing ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — About half a million people live below the poverty level in Baja California, including 62,000 living in “extreme poverty” in cities such as Tijuana and Mexicali, said ...

Students engaged with simulated real-life scenarios designed to illustrate the daily struggles faced by individuals living in poverty. Over 100 middle and high school students from across New Jersey ...

On average, North Carolina is slightly ahead of the rest of the country in terms of getting kids ready for kindergarten – but children from lower-income families are lagging behind their peers, new ...

Social Security benefits only replace 40% of pre-retirement income. In many states, earning the average benefit would put you very close to the federal poverty level. You should aim to have ...

A college education is not the ticket out of poverty that it used to be. A Dallas Morning News analysis of data from the U.S.

This guest essay reflects the views of Paule Pachter, president and chief executive of Long Island Cares, Inc. — The Harry Chapin Regional Food Bank in Hauppauge. I am often asked by elected officials ...

Beneficiaries who earn more than four times the federal poverty level wouldn’t be eligible for any subsidies on marketplace plans if the enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of the year. The ...

On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a wealth manager named Michael Green published a Substack post arguing that a $140,000 income is the new poverty level for a family of four in America, where the ...