Late last month, the investor and Substack writer Michael Green advanced this attention-grabbing claim, which implies that a ...

Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

Financial expert Michael W. Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is a "lie" — that ...

Leading American poverty researcher Mark Robert Rank joins the Utterly Moderate Podcast to discuss his Poverty Risk Calculator and the risk Americans face of experiencing poverty throughout their ...

The Trump administration’s latest reported purge at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may be one of its most consequential yet — silently dismantling the small, crucial office that ...

TL;DR: How This Calculator Works ・This tool estimates your discretionary income as defined by federal student-loan regulations, not personal-budget leftover money. ・Discretionary income = Your AGI – ...

Almost 45 percent of students were eligible for free and reduced lunch at Hillsboro schools last year. That figure that has increased by 10 percentage points overall since 2003, though it peaked in ...

If the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has its way, a new federal poverty calculation will underestimate the number of families — and children — living in poverty even more than it does ...

This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation. Read all of our Day One Agenda articles here. It’s often cited that four out of ten ...

The Trump administration is considering changing the way the government measures poverty, which has anti-poverty groups worried that many low-income individuals will be pushed off assistance programs ...