A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

A viral claim that $140K is the "real poverty line" has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

A coalition of Massachusetts politicians, led by Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, is calling on the nation’s top public health official to stop an attack on a key building block for anti-poverty ...

Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.

In a post that went viral recently, Green suggests that the official poverty line of $32,000 per year for a family of four is ...

East Grand Rapids City Commissioners approved new poverty-exemption guidelines, doubling the income thresholds and ...

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Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...

Cornwall Alliance President E. Calvin Beisner condemned climate alarmist "colonialism," arguing for prosperity enabled by ...

During the past year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has made a series of false statements referring to “environmental toxins” as a cause of autism. Meanwhile, ...

Don Willis, who has been with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) since 2020, has joined the U of A's human development and family sciences program as an assistant professor.