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

Financial analyst Michael Green suggests the official poverty line of $32,000 per year for a family of four in the U.S. is ...

The United States is the ‘land of opportunities’ for those who have the skill and the discipline to achieve something big in life. According to the US Census Bureau 2022 data, the poverty rate in the ...

In this article, we will be navigating through the poverty situation in the US, the disparity in state-level poverty, while covering the 25 states with the highest poverty rates in the country. If you ...

A viral claim that $140K is the "real poverty line" has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

Green’s Substack post delved into the well-known concepts of “the two-income trap” and benefit "cliffs.” The former is ...

American households earning well into the middle six figures increasingly say they feel squeezed, not secure, as housing, ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up for the first time in years, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Experts caution the trend, including an increasing child poverty rate, ...

The following information was released by the United States Census Bureau: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced that real median household income was $83,730 in 2024, not statistically different ...

A new study ranking America’s most relaxed cities placed San Jose at the top, finding that wealthy suburbs and tech hubs ...

The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental detail of my ...