In late November 2025, Michael W. Green, chief strategist and portfolio manager at Simplify Asset Management, published a Substack essay arguing that a family of four needs roughly $136,500 a year to ...

Poverty and indebtedness increase a person's risk of dying young, a pair of new studies say. People with poverty-level family income or increasing debt levels during early adulthood have higher odds ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) — Today’s Good Question is: Who sets the federal poverty level? The Department of Health and Human Services sets the federal poverty guidelines each year through the Federal ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone ...

Pope Leo XIV released a major teaching document on Thursday about poverty. It's Leo's first major document since his election in May. Pope Leo is drawing the world's attention to poverty. A new ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky Youth Advocates released the 2025 Kentucky KIDS COUNT Data Dashboard today, featuring county-level data on child health, education, economic security and family ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The poverty rate across New York City fell slightly over the past year, but despite the overall decrease, two boroughs saw their numbers rise. New data from the U.S. Census ...

The level rose slightly on the previous year while the number of children living in poverty has remained steady.