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

At least from a material perspective, things have never been better for many if not most Americans: Their homes are larger ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: ...

In this article, we will be navigating through the poverty situation in the US, the disparity in state-level poverty, while covering the 25 states with the highest poverty rates in the country. If you ...

The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental detail of my ...

In this article, we look at 25 states with the lowest poverty rates in America. You can skip our detailed analysis on poverty in the United States, and head over directly to the 10 States with the ...

Some states are having difficulty shaking off high poverty rates, a new study suggests. Between 1989 and 2019, 19.4 million people lived in areas of persistent poverty, according to a report by the US ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. A mother and son living in a Walmart parking lot in North Dakota in 2012.Credit...Eugene Richards Supported by ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to afford their basic needs. But this is a problem we can actually solve. With a ...

While affluent nations step back from humanitarian relief and economic development assistance, the world is on the verge of reversing progress against global poverty.

“Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their ...