When it comes to tracking how poverty impacts families with children in COVID-era America, estimates for 2021 reveal something noteworthy.

Factoring in all the assistance families are provided, correcting for inaccuracies in reporting, and looking at what low-income families consume, the child poverty rate has fallen from 16.1 ...

FRONTLINE has been tracking poverty, especially how poverty impacts children, for several years — most recently in the documentary Growing Up Poor in America, released in September 2020. The ...

It's been almost 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty." But today, the poverty rate in the U.S. is the highest it's been in 17 years, affecting some 46 million people ...

Click image to enlarge. How Poverty is Measured: Share of Disposable Income Spent on Food, 1930-2014. Food used to comprise a much larger share of a family’s budget compared to today.

Half of U.S. families struggle to make ends meet, ... Recently released Census Bureau data show that more than 37 million people in America lived at or below the federal poverty line in 2020.

The epidemic of poverty is spreading in America, and it’s taking its toll on American families. Inequality is also on the rise, meaning that the nation is moving further away from one of its ...

Contrary to popular belief, the percentage of the population that directly encounters poverty is exceedingly high, says Mark Rank. Contrary to popular belief, ...

Since 2007, poverty across all age groups has leapt upward, to include 46.2 million people. (See, “America: The land of poverty”) Official measures of poverty grossly understate its scope and ...

Poverty in America: Millions of families too broke for ... and some even deposit checks using their cellphone cameras, roughly eight percent of America's 115 million households don’t have a ...

Struggling families looking for a safe, affordable place to live in America usually have but one choice: to rent from private landlords and fork over at least half their income to rent and utilities.