A prominent strategist contends that the real "poverty line" for a family of four is $140,000, not the official threshold of ...

To continue growing the middle class, Congress and the Biden administration should learn from what worked in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated recession that led to ...

How Far Will Experimenting on the Unborn Go? Audio By Carbonatix In conversations about Social Security, opponents of reform sometimes point to the senior poverty rate to explain why the program ...

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 ...

New research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) shows that more than 90 percent of people who had previously been classified as living in extreme poverty were actually ...

On Tuesday, the Census Bureau released its annual poverty report declaring that 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty in 2015. We should be concerned about any American living in real material ...

The data revolution is under way, and data has impacted how we buy, work, live—even how we love. But there’s one field that remains largely unaffected, and that’s statistics—or, ironically enough, ...

Some economic indicators have improved slightly but new research shows many Alabama families struggle to meet basic needs in the nation's seventh-poorest state. The 2025 Barriers to Prosperity data ...