One analysis suggests that modern budgets push the effective poverty line far above official levels, revealing why many six-figure earners still feel financially strained.

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

Over the last 50 years, the proportion of Americans living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged. In 2023, 11 percent ...

A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

Environmental pollution and poverty are often discussed as separate crises, but they are deeply intertwined, forming a vicious cycle that traps millions of people across the developing world, ...

In his January 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” In the 50 years since ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...

We are at a critical juncture today in the fight against poverty. Despite decades of hard-won development progress, a world free of poverty remains out of sight. Ten years ago, the outlook appeared ...

Margaret grew up in the Patterson Way Apartments, a notorious drug-infested public housing development in South Boston. By the time she was 16, both her mother and her father had died, and her ...

After Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer for Evicted, about families struggling to stay housed, the Princeton sociologist realized he still didn't understand why the U.S. has more poverty than any other ...

The other team aren't the enemy - and supporters should think about that before weaponising poverty in the name of 'banter' ...

Financial writer Tim Harford, author of the new book The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, says the poverty line for a single American in 2012 was $30.52 per day. But Harford, talking with NPR's ...