The trouble with relative poverty measures, at root, is that the poor are not inherently better off if their wealthy ...

A little more than 1 in 10, that's how many working-age Hoosiers live below the official poverty line. A new report from the Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute suggests that the number is ...

Official poverty statistics expose a deepening crisis for which Democrats and Republicans bear joint responsibility.

The U.S. measure of poverty is an important social indicator that affects not only public perceptions of well-being in America, but also public policies and programs. The current measure was ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

In this post I discuss the policy implications of declaring the Supplemental Poverty Measure the new official measure, an action that could be taken unilaterally by the Director of the Office of ...

Nearly a third of LAC's population lives with less than $8.30 per day (2021 PPP), while just over a third are considered middle class. This dashboard presents the trends in the poverty rate, the ...