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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The income for the typical U.S. household barely rose last year and essentially matched its 2019 peak, the Census Bureau said Tuesday, a stark illustration of the impact that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is among President Trump's Cabinet heads who try to smile away the economic reality facing ...

New data shows that the K-shaped economy has simultaneously raised household income and childhood poverty rate. The downstream effect hits schools.

Britain is set for another dodgy data scandal. In last Friday’s Reality Check newsletter I picked up on reporting from ...

Official figures going back to 2018 are set to take billions in under-reported benefits income into account.

The poverty rate in the Syracuse City School District fell more than 8 percentage points between 2023 and 2024, according to ...