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

A wealth manager wrote that $140,000 a year means poverty in today's America, sparking controversy. He's wrong, but he made a ...

Michael Green’s call to expand the poverty line to $140K reignites a debate over what economic strain really means today.

Affordability discourse is useless if it's not accurate, and politicians should strive to accurately describe Americans' financial realities ...

In the real world, official measures show poverty fell from 19.5% in 1963 to 10.5% in 2019, said Michael R. Strain in ...

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

The new child poverty strategy promises the biggest fall in child poverty in decades. Will it also deliver better health for ...

Amartya Sen has reshaped how we measure poverty by placing human capabilities at the centre of development. He has urged the ...

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) heads to a vote in the Senate at the US Capitol. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

Within the United States, education is commonly regarded as an equalizer to opportunity and upward mobility. In reality, there are countless impediments in the system that exclude low-income children ...

The number of South Africans who live in extreme poverty – going to bed hungry more often than not – has dropped by 5.1 ...