A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

A new study ranking America’s most relaxed cities placed San Jose at the top, finding that wealthy suburbs and tech hubs ...

Last month, a Wall Street portfolio manager named Michael Green created a bit of a stir with a Substack article headlined, ...

American households earning well into the middle six figures increasingly say they feel squeezed, not secure, as housing, ...

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – nearly 40 million – live in poverty. It's... The Roots of Poverty in America The United States is one ...

America has waged "war" on poverty since the 1960s, and official numbers suggest substantial progress. Take poverty among the elderly: Between 1959 and 2003, the number of elderly Americans living in ...

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 ...

I did all that could be considered 'pulling myself up by the bootstraps.' No matter how hard I worked, it felt like ...

The United States remains the richest country in the world. Given that fact, we should be leading the world in helping those who are “poor,” in America and around the globe. And we have done so. That ...