Financial expert Michael W. Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is a "lie" — that ...

Sometimes, numbers don't tell the whole story. At times, they even tell the wrong story. Take Long Island's poverty rate, which in 2022 stood at 5.9%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa --- Roughly 70,000 fewer Iowans are categorized as living in poverty between 2009 and 2011 under an alternative method the federal government is using to measure economic well-being.

Leading American poverty researcher Mark Robert Rank joins the Utterly Moderate Podcast to discuss his Poverty Risk Calculator and the risk Americans face of experiencing poverty throughout their ...