About 43 million people — or 12.9% of Americans — lived in poverty last year. That’s according to this week’s release of the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, a more comprehensive measure ...

Katharine L. Ricke is in the School of Global Policy and Strategy and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. Gordon C. McCord ...

Almost 700 million people around the world live in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than $2.15 per day. Nearly 50 percent of the world’s population live on less than $6.85 a day – the measure used ...

Worst States to Be Poor in America. Let’s talk about the worst states to live in poverty here in the USA. Living below the poverty line in the United States or any country for that matter sucks. The ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social scientists ...

California's poverty rate is once again the highest in the country, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows. What's more, that rate recently saw its first increase in more than a decade.

Southeast Ohio is a region known for a long history of poverty. The region continues to suffer from this issue, with many ...

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 ...