New data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) shows that Michigan’s official poverty rate remained largely stagnant over the past two years and has worsened since before ...

California tied with Louisiana for having the highest poverty rate in the country. Census Bureau figures showed the state's Supplemental Poverty Measure stood at 17.7% in 2024. That's about 7 million ...

More than 9 million children — about 13% — are living in poverty in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Based on a report analyzing that data, published by the Annie E. Casey ...

The child poverty rate in California nearly tripled from 2021 to 2024 — 7.5% to 18.6% — and is now the fourth highest in the country, according to new KIDS COUNT data from the Annie E. Casey ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- One out of five people in Houston lives in poverty, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data. Those recently released numbers put Houston at the top of the list with the ...

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This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty over 50 ...

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Argentina's poverty rate rocketed to 52.9% in the first half of 2024, the government's INDEC statistics agency said on Thursday, surging from 40.1% a year earlier.

Hundreds of thousands of older Hungarians are being forced to choose between food, medicine, and heat as inadequate pensions fail to keep pace with rising costs, Human Rights Watch said in a new ...