The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to ...

These wages are closer to the poverty wage than they are to the living wage for Jefferson County. A minimum wage increase would benefit more than just the 870,000 Pennsylvania workers who earn bel ...

What comes in between wage hike proposals and poverty or upliftment of life's condition for the working class is, as usual, avarice. The P200 wage increase that has just been approved by the House lab ...