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

In the real world, official measures show poverty fell from 19.5% in 1963 to 10.5% in 2019, said Michael R. Strain in ...

A viral claim that $140K is the "real poverty line" has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

Michael Green’s call to expand the poverty line to $140K reignites a debate over what economic strain really means today.

What’s the most significant news? I think the most interesting aspect of this report is the different directions the two measures of poverty went in 2023. On one hand, the official poverty measure ...

[00:00] - Those at the bottom of the income distribution, the poorest and the most vulnerable, have to be also more proactively engaged in that process of economic growth and benefiting from it. - ...

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 ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

Income-based poverty in Argentina fell to 36.3% of the population in the third quarter of this year, down from 45.6% in the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The poverty rate across New York City fell slightly over the past year, but despite the overall ...