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

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

The current poverty level – inflation adjusted from that 1963 base – is $31,200 for a family of four. I think we can all ...

Last year, 11.6% of people in the U.S. lived below the federal poverty level, a number that has ticked up in recent years, according to the Census Bureau. Experts say those numbers may be even higher ...

For those taking in the “Step Into Someone Else’s Shoes” Poverty Simulation, seeing what it’s like to live in poverty was a ...

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he’d been out of work for nearly two years, in this ...

When I read a headline about the “good news” of slight decreases in poverty levels, I might be the only one in a crowd to feel discouraged — not encouraged. While we are grateful to see any small ...