For all the media coverage surrounding this week’s federal ... on the table. Without a steady, reliable income, these women ...

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

Dear Editor: The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Jan. 16 released the new poverty rate for Medicaid at the 100% of the federal poverty level. It went up from $15,060 to $15 ...

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 ...

As the state-level legalization movement has continued to expand despite a lack of meaningful reform at the federal level, the gun issue has become a major policy consideration within judicial and ...

"The federal government must serve the interests of taxpayers, and taxpayers are best served by a lean, efficient, transparent, and accountable bureaucracy," the first principle read, according to ...

NEW YORK (January 14, 2025) — People First: The Third Federal Way, by Marc A. Stefanski, is published with Forbes Books, the exclusive business book publishing imprint of Forbes. This thoughtful ...

[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 ...

“The change between the two sets of transitions is that the overall poverty level in 2022-24 is substantially lower, and the newly poor form a more significant part of all poor ...

Ms. Young is a lawyer in the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. Federal employees like me have been hearing a lot in recent weeks about how important it is for us to stay in our ...