The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...

The Senate passed a bill Thursday that would create a program allowing certain K-12 students to use state lottery funds to ...

Bangladesh’s poverty map has changed as Barishal now has the highest percentage of people living in poverty among all the ...

Today, the U.S. Census Bureau still uses these calculations to determine what income is considered poverty level. The federal poverty level (FPL) affects everything from health insurance programs ...