This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. An estimated 41 million Americans are living below the ...

The United States is the ‘land of opportunities’ for those who have the skill and the discipline to achieve something big in life. According to the US Census Bureau 2022 data, the poverty rate in the ...

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In this article, we will be navigating through the poverty situation in the US, the disparity in state-level poverty, while covering the 25 states with the highest poverty rates in the country. If you ...

Despite its occasional economic hiccups, the United States remains one of the richest countries in the world. As of 2022 it ranked 7 th globally in GDP per capita, according to data cited by Visual ...

In this post I discuss the policy implications of declaring the Supplemental Poverty Measure the new official measure, an action that could be taken unilaterally by the Director of the Office of ...

In 2022, three New York state jurisdictions made the list of 50 cities with the highest child poverty rates. In 2019, four New York state cities made that list. In neither year did cities in New York ...

Multiple measures show poverty is holding its grip across Alabama. Maps produced by Al.com from three federal data sources show the prevalence of poverty in all the state’s counties – even those ...

New census data reveals that poverty is often a policy decision. Between 2019 and 2021, new federal policies pulled millions of people out of poverty across the West. Now that those pandemic-era ...

Jean Holloway has lived in the same house in Hartford’s Clay Arsenal neighborhood since 1971. It’s nestled among several historic landmarks and predates the Connecticut State Capitol building. The ...

In Minneapolis, for example, researchers said a new program that cost less than $30 million per year would cut the city’s poverty levels by half when accounting for existing state and federal credits.

Last week, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib proposed three pieces of legislation under the umbrella of her “Economic Dignity for ...