New Census Bureau statistics show that abandoning the successful anti-poverty interventions of the pandemic has put the nation right back where it started. Reading these figures, you get the sense of ...

Child poverty also fell to its lowest recorded level, while the share of Americans without health insurance remained largely ...

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 ...

Each September, the US Census Bureau releases its annual report on “Income and Poverty in the United States,” summarizing data collected in the year prior. This year, many people will dismiss the ...

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.