Op-Ed: Women disproportionately suffer during fiscal austerity, says gender economist Katica Roy. She explains how Trump’s ...

The new Department of Government Efficiency can't go after Medicare or Social Security. That leaves Medicaid in a vulnerable ...

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

measured by income below 60% of median income (the amount earned by the person in the middle of the earnings table). Those in deep poverty, below the 40% mark, have become a more entrenched feature.

Nearly one in six adults and one in five children in Santa Barbara County are living at, near, or below the poverty line, reality that is hard to see because of the county's affluent image ...

[1] If even some of these proposals are enacted, more families will struggle to pay their bills and afford groceries, more children will live in poverty ... from federal taxable income, could also ...

Urban poverty declined from 4.6% in 2022-23 to 4.09% in 2023-24. “At an aggregate level, we believe poverty rates in India could now be in the range of 4-4.5% with almost minimal existence of ...

Despite the dismantling of the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to regulate broadband internet service, state laws in California, New York and elsewhere remain intact. This week’s ...

A research study by State Bank of India (SBI) highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has reduced to minimal with poverty rates in the country falling below 5 percent in 2024.

Due to both these reasons, among others, they end up using a very low poverty line. Unsurprisingly, they obtain a very low level of poverty. In short, they have underestimated the poverty line to ...

A federal appeals court Thursday dealt a fatal blow to the Federal Communications Commission’s decade-plus effort to gain stronger oversight over the internet. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ...

This table indicates the rates for 2024 and ... $7.25 an hour isn't enough to raise a family of four above the federal poverty level: $31,200 in 2024. Working and earning the federal minimum ...