Financial expert Michael W. Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is a "lie" — that ...

Nearly half of the country plans to raise the minimum wage in various states, but Tennessee has a history of not raising its ...

Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is a "lie" — that is, wildly disconnected from ...

While higher education still guarantees better wages, more educated North Texans are struggling with poverty, according to ...

Mexico leads Latin America in poverty reduction, owing primarily to recent minimum wage increases, according to a United ...

Action on poverty pay is key to stop the “deepening” staffing crisis in social care, a Resolution Foundation report has urged ...

The federal minimum wage has not increased in over 15 years. The federal and state minimum wages are both $7.25 an hour, which makes them poverty pay. The annual earnings of a single adult working ...

Editorial: Lifting the two-child benefit limit – at a cost of £3bn – will improve the life chances of more than half a ...

A new report finds anglophones face higher unemployment and lower wages in Quebec; gaps that researchers say carry major ...

Government regulations may make the cost of housing unacceptably expensive, but the majority of Americans are not living below the poverty line.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer writes for The Mirror as he launches the government's child poverty strategy first promised in ...

New Jersey’s minimum wage will increase 43 cents on Jan. 1, 2026 to $15.92, the latest of the hikes that Gov. Phil Murphy ...