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 ...

Low-income families often aren't able to take control of their health, despite the fact that many of them have health insurance through Medicaid.

As China moves beyond the five-year transition period following its poverty alleviation success, preventing a return to ...

Researchers at Boston Medical Center, working with colleagues at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Harvard ...

The proportion of Filipino families who consider themselves poor dramatically decreased to 37%, or an estimated 9.8 million ...

State lawmakers aim to provide no-strings-attached cash payments to new mothers and parents in New York to reduce some of the nation’s highest childhood poverty rates. USA TODAY Network reporters ...

More than 72 million people in the EU were classed "at risk of poverty" in 2024, representing 16.2% of the population. Even so, living on the breadline looks vastly different when comparing poverty ...