America's wealth gap is growing. S.S. Census Bureau.S. population lived in poverty, yet the picture looks wildly different ...

America’s “War on Poverty” has expanded into a vast array of federal social welfare programs that today exceed $1 trillion ...

The number of poor Americans edged up last year to a high of 49.7 million, according to numbers released by the Census Bureau on Wednesday. The new census took into account medical costs and ...

Over the last 50 years, the proportion of Americans living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged. In 2023, 11 percent of American’s lived below the poverty line. In 1973, that number was also 11 ...

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

Wisconsin’s learning gap for students is greater than the national average in part because of poverty and not just race, says ...

American households earning well into the middle six figures increasingly say they feel squeezed, not secure, as housing, health care and child care costs outpace their paychecks. The claim that ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A wealth manager wrote that $140,000 a year means poverty in today’s America, sparking controversy. He’s wrong, ...

Join the community discussion on poverty in America. Learn about the challenges faced by families and the efforts to address ...

My AEI colleague Mark Warshawsky recently wrote an excellent summary of policy reasons not to extend the COVID-era enhanced ACA subsidies. His explainer adds to a substantial body of work (examples ...

Chinese commentators are talking a lot these days about poverty in the United States, claiming China’s superiority by appropriating an evocative phrase from video game culture. The phrase, “kill line, ...