A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

The real cost of living in America is far higher than the federal poverty line suggests. Here’s why experts argue the true ...

A wealth manager wrote that $140,000 a year means poverty in today's America, sparking controversy. He's wrong, but he made a ...

Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond explores why poverty persists in America — and how to end it — in his new book, "Poverty, By America." Why does poverty persist in America, the richest ...

The classic promise of the American dream is that no matter where you grew up, no matter how poor you were as a kid, you can still have a path to financial stability in the United States as long as ...

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – nearly 40 million – live in poverty. It's... The Roots of Poverty in America The United States is one ...

Matthew Desmond wants all of us to become “poverty abolitionists.” It’s a brilliant term because of the associations it carries throughout Desmond’s lively “Poverty, By America”: There’s the ...

Why does the richest nation in the world still have so many people living in poverty? One in every nine people in America is officially poor, and one in eight children – why do we tolerate this much ...

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond’s disquieting new book, “Poverty, by America,” succinctly makes the case that poverty persists in the world’s rich county not because we are spending less and ...

Many Americans are struggling, but make too much money to qualify for social assistance. That's because the US poverty line is outdated, leaving behind workers who could benefit from help. Experts ...

Though the United States is the richest country in the world, it has a higher rate of poverty than any other advanced democracy. Matthew Desmond, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, examines this dire ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in ...