If the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has its way, a new federal poverty calculation will underestimate the number of families — and children — living in poverty even more than it does ...

A prominent strategist contends that the real "poverty line" for a family of four is $140,000, not the official threshold of ...

Financial expert Michael W. Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is a "lie" — that ...

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The Trump administration is considering changing the way the government measures poverty, which has anti-poverty groups worried that many low-income individuals will be pushed off assistance programs ...

Few things in American politics have been more hotly and consistently argued in the last half-century than the legacy of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. In a 1986 speech on welfare reform, ...

The Trump administration is considering changing the way the government measures poverty, which has anti-poverty groups worried that many low-income individuals will be pushed off assistance programs ...

As averaged from 2013 to 2015, California had America’s 17 th-highest poverty rate, 15 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But, by a newer, more comprehensive Census accounting, California’s ...