RALEIGH — The income of the median American household fell by nearly 3% last year as the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent regulations shuttered many businesses for months, closed others for good, and ...

When we think about poverty in America, a specific image might come to mind, but the reality is often far more complex and widespread than we assume. The data reveals a story that challenges ...

The income of the median American household fell by nearly 3% last year as the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent regulations shuttered many businesses for months, closed others for good and forced ...

Burnout has become a growing concern, at least in the popular press, since the beginning of the pandemic. Burnout is regularly attributed to overwork[1], and for the last decade or so, there have been ...

U.S. Census Bureau data released this fall sparked national attention over the historic drop in U.S. child poverty statistics for 2021. Many believe these figures will climb again following the ...

Michael W. Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked ...

Poverty in New York City surged by half a million between 2021 and 2022, totalling 2 million people. Over half of NYC residents are living in poverty or with low income, including 25% of kids. The ...

Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...

It sometimes seems as though America is pulling itself apart at the seams, or perhaps more accurately, from the core outward. The gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing and that growth is ...

Child poverty in the U.S. has fallen by more than half since the early 1990s. By David Leonhardt When President Bill Clinton signed a bipartisan bill tightening the rules around welfare eligibility in ...