WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2024 – At today’s feeble pace, it could take more than a century to eliminate poverty as it is defined for nearly half the world – people who live on less than $6.85 per day, ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up for the first time in years, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Experts caution the trend, including an increasing child poverty rate, ...

More than 1 in 3 children who grew up in low-income families in the 1980s didn’t make it out of poverty by their 30s. If children in poverty today follow the same trajectory, more than 24 million ...

Oregon poverty rates are near historic lows, with fewer than 1 in 9 residents living below the federal poverty line. But critics have long complained that the government’s classification formula is ...

New census data reveals that poverty is often a policy decision. Between 2019 and 2021, new federal policies pulled millions of people out of poverty across the West. Now that those pandemic-era ...

When I think of poverty, I don’t just imagine someone living in extreme crisis. I think about families like mine in Delaware County, families just barely above the official poverty line, struggling ...

New Census Bureau data highlights sharp contrasts in poverty across the U.S., with some states reporting rates nearly three times higher than others. Over the three-year period from 2022 through 2024, ...