We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the official poverty rate ...

I suppose if you’re someone who thinks American capitalism has failed and unironically uses the phrase “late capitalism,” there’s probably no changing your mind. So I guess this post is meant for ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According ...

A new report suggests poverty has "deepened" in the UK.

During his 1964 State of the Union address, former President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an unconditional war on poverty. While this national effort did reduce poverty, it didn't go far enough. Still ...

The following information was released by the United States Census Bureau: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced that real median household income was $83,730 in 2024, not statistically different ...

Long Island's 2024 poverty rate was far below the state's and the nation's, a longtime pattern, and median household incomes in Nassau and Suffolk were far higher as well, but advocates said the data ...