The history of capitalism, as portrayed in academia and among much of the media, is a sad story. It’s one of smokestacks, sweatshops, child labor, robber barons, social stratification and general ...

New Census Bureau data highlights sharp contrasts in poverty across the U.S., with some states reporting rates nearly three times higher than others. Over the three-year period from 2022 through 2024, ...

The official poverty measure has a lot of problems, and we'll have to wait until November for the better alternative measure from the census. For one thing, the official measure totally ignores the ...

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 ...

Kavya Beheraj/Axios More New Orleanians were living below the poverty level last year than five years before, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Why it matters: ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Pew Research has a good report up this week on child poverty during the great ...

From Lawrence McQuillian of the Independent Institute: The poverty rate in the United States fell by half from 1950 to the start of the “War on Poverty.” And it was on track to continue falling. But ...

Rachel Sheffield is research fellow in welfare and family policy in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research. In his speech today at Cleveland State ...

Social Security is arguably the most important program in place for our nation's retired workers. According to the Social Security Administration, more than 60% of retired workers count on their ...

Around six million people were in very deep poverty in 2021-22 - 1.5 million more than 20 years ago The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has today produced a scathing report revealing the sheer scale of ...

New projections from the Urban Institute find the poverty rate will drop to 7.7% in 2021. The New York Times reported that would be a decline of about 45% from 2018. Researchers credited stimulus ...

The Philippines has lagged behind its neighbors in Southeast Asia in reducing poverty even as its economic expansion mostly kept pace the past two decades, which may stall efforts to achieve an ...