Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is a "lie" — that is, wildly disconnected from ...

Ask Americans how they feel about their finances, and many will tell you they’re barely getting by — or worse. In recent ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark paper that helped delineate the federal poverty line. A huge leap forward in its day, the poverty line established credible criteria for what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aisha Nyandoro is a leading voice on equitable economic policies. It’s time to retire the outdated federal poverty line and ...

Living below the poverty line means every necessary purchase is a huge percentage of your salary. Putting those numbers into the context of your own finances will hopefully make you empathize a little ...

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

Workers at the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County pack up boxes that will be delivered to local senior centers in April 2020. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Recently released Census ...