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 How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

Discover how the International Poverty Line defines global poverty, its critique, and impacts. Learn about its uses and how it differs from the Federal Poverty Level.

Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people living in poverty in the U.S. decreased for the fifth consecutive year. Roughly 37 million people, or 11.4 percent of the total ...

It is no secret that the number of people living in poverty in the United States has consistently reached shocking and deplorable numbers. Food and housing insecurity is an issue that plagues many ...

Your two-part series on the plight of the ski bum inspired this letter (HCN, 10/25/04: As the town hollows out, one Aspen neighborhood thrives) (HCN,.11/8/04: A new breed of ‘ski bums’ is anything but ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prevalence of heart disease risk factors ranged from 1.4% to 17.5% in people living in extreme poverty. The ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- More Staten Islanders are struggling to make ends meet, with recently released census data showing that the number of borough residents living in poverty has jumped nearly 20% ...

The summer and fall of 2020 through the eyes of five people living in poverty in Chicago. In Chicago, your birthplace often determines your destiny. A child born in one West Side census tract between ...

More than 660,000 older Americans in California are living below the poverty line, according to an analysis by the health research site KFF, the highest number in the country. The ...

Children living in substandard housing in England miss 15 more school days and achieve worse test scores in English and math ...