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 ...

Low-income families often aren't able to take control of their health, despite the fact that many of them have health ...

As China moves beyond the five-year transition period following its poverty alleviation success, preventing a return to ...

The following information was released by the United States Census Bureau: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced that real median household income was $83,730 in 2024, not statistically different ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social scientists ...

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 ...

Researchers at Boston Medical Center, working with colleagues at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Harvard ...

Preterm birth rates in the US show disparities by household income and race, with Black mothers having higher risks for ...

More than 72 million people in the EU were classed "at risk of poverty" in 2024, representing 16.2% of the population. Even so, living on the breadline looks vastly different when comparing poverty ...