Although inflation has eased, many Americans say they still feel squeezed financially. Here are five areas where households ...

The federal minimum wage has not increased in over 15 years. The federal and state minimum wages are both $7.25 an hour, ...

Simplify Asset Management chief strategist Mike Green discusses the true cost of living in America and today’s metric of poverty with Fox Business Network's Charles Payne.

Protesters carry a banner saying “No cuts to Medicaid!” at a rally to save health care in Washington, D.C., in March. Rising health care costs have pushed millions into poverty nationwide. Michael ...

Cuban economist Pedro Monreal revealed on Wednesday that every single state worker in Cuba is living in extreme poverty based ...

The slowdown in growth of households living paycheck to paycheck can be attributed to the number of lower-income households, especially millennials and Gen X, who are living paycheck to paycheck, said ...

Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as flophouses. Then in 2017, she met 11-year-old Mikal in a hotel lobby.

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

The share of New Yorkers in poverty is nearly double the national average, according to a report from Columbia University and an anti-poverty group. By Benjamin Oreskes Benjamin Oreskes reported from ...

One in six American children under age 5 — about 3 million — live in poverty, the highest rate of any age group. Children remain the poorest age group in America, with children of color, children ...

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40% of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a body mass ...