Late last month, the investor and Substack writer Michael Green advanced this attention-grabbing claim, which implies that a ...

Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

A wealth manager wrote that $140,000 a year means poverty in today's America, sparking controversy. He's wrong, but he made a ...

After declining over the past three years, real median household income made a pronounced jump in 2023 up to its prepandemic level, likely a result of more full-time employment in the economy as ...

Green’s Substack post delved into the well-known concepts of “the two-income trap” and benefit "cliffs.” The former is ...

The real problem is that guaranteed income, however well-intentioned, requires steady funding, something governments in places like Illinois can’t afford to provide.

When the state pension age rose to 66, the percentage of 65-year-olds in income poverty more than doubled, new research ...

Camden’s rates of child poverty and well-being have improved in the past decade, though the city continued to fare worse than the state as a whole, according to a recent report released by a ...

Americans’ incomes fell last year but fewer people were living in poverty amid COVID-19 as trillions of dollars in federal aid offered relief to the millions who were laid off. Median U.S. household ...

Income-based poverty in Argentina fell to 36.3% of the population in the third quarter of this year, down from 45.6% in the ...