The cost of basics like housing and food rose, while incomes and other resources, like public benefits, did not keep up.

The Trump administration’s latest reported purge at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may be one of its most consequential yet — silently dismantling the small, crucial office that ...

Now and then, you stumble upon a metric so obviously broken that it forces you to re-evaluate everything you thought you knew about how America works. The latest in a line of such relics is the ...

Sometimes, numbers don't tell the whole story. At times, they even tell the wrong story. Take Long Island's poverty rate, which in 2022 stood at 5.9%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American ...

If the guys from Men in Black wiped your memory clean with a neuralyzer and erased the years 2020 and 2021 (which wouldn’t be such a bad idea), you would have greeted yesterday’s release of the Census ...

Some Minnesota school districts are scrambling after finding out they could lose millions of dollars in state funding for next year. One superintendent told 5 EYEWITNESS News it is an “unintended ...

Seniors are the only age group that saw a rise in poverty in 2024, Census Bureau data show. Without government help, it could get worse, experts say.

When a prostitute attempted suicide in the Ocean Side Inn's parking lot this summer, Barbara Malone decided it was time for her 7-year-old, Charlene, to stay with a relative. But in that moldy motel ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa --- Roughly 70,000 fewer Iowans are categorized as living in poverty between 2009 and 2011 under an alternative method the federal government is using to measure economic well-being.

Leading American poverty researcher Mark Robert Rank joins the Utterly Moderate Podcast to discuss his Poverty Risk Calculator and the risk Americans face of experiencing poverty throughout their ...