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 ...

Disrupting the cycle of poverty isn’t about focusing on one person in the family. It’s about centering the entire family and building a rich, supportive, and deeply responsive community that can hold ...

South Carolina moved closer Thursday to reinstalling a private school voucher program originally deemed unconstitutional by ...

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 ...