A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

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.

The current poverty level – inflation adjusted from that 1963 base – is $31,200 for a family of four. I think we can all ...

How much does an American family of four need to earn to avoid poverty? According to the Census Bureau, $32,130. But what if ...

Would it help poverty or hurt the perception of poverty to call a six-figure family “poor”? A recent example of a claim that extends well beyond the reach of economic experts is that “the actual ...

Last year, 11.6% of people in the U.S. lived below the federal poverty level, a number that has ticked up in recent years, according to the Census Bureau. Experts say those numbers may be even higher ...

California has the highest poverty rate in the US, a Census Bureau report shows. The District of Columbia was the only location with a higher rate of poverty than California. Despite this, ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

America’s poverty level — despite the country’s enormous wealth, vast resources and human talent — is one of the highest among developed countries. Dozens of OECD countries have substantially lower ...

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he’d been out of work for nearly two years, in this ...

People walking in the streets of inner city North Philadelphia. The county this city is located in has the highest poverty rate in the state. This time around, we’re looking at the counties in all 50 ...