About 9.1 percent of people in working families lives in poverty and 26.3 percent lives in or near poverty. A fulltime worker supporting a family of two on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 ...
The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...
Mississippi (right) faces risks from all four climate hazards, and it has some of the highest poverty rates in the country. These two trends combined expose vulnerable populations to extreme risks.