The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...
Tennessee's "State of the Child" 2024 report shows some progress, but also highlights ongoing concerns. The report from the ...
In the United States, 42 million people live in poverty. Nearly 40% of single-mother households are impoverished, and alarmingly, 1 in 3 children raised in poverty stay impoverished through adulthood.
Rachel Fleit's documentary 'Sugar Babies' commendably doesn't judge its young, callow subjects, but it doesn't really ...
A slight increase in the number of hardcore poor households in Kuala Lumpur is recorded, from 474 in November to 507 as of ...
Oxfam predicted in its new report that the world was on track to see at least five trillionaires within a decade.
A new survey by the National Institute on Ageing takes stock of the health, social well-being and financial security of ...
Outgoing Department of Human Services head Laura Zeilinger reflected on her decade-long tenure at the agency responsible for supporting the city’s thousands of families who live in poverty.
Gov. Wes Moore's anti-poverty Enough Act initially provides $3M to help Hagerstown's South End. There could be almost $30M ...
A MAP has laid bare the UK’s poverty crisis with half of kids living below the breadline in the hardest-hit areas. The ...
Now, the federal poverty line is the same no matter where you live. Rep. Mikie Sherrill introduced a bill to require regional ...
She based her poverty guidelines and calculations on the cost of feeding a family of four with a rudimentary food plan plus other necessary living expenses. Today, the U.S. Census Bureau still ...