In 2025, the poverty line for an individual in all US states but Alaska and Hawaii is $15,650. In 2023, the US Census Bureau ...

Republican proposals that Congress could act on this year, including spending cuts House Republicans are reportedly ...

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The rising costs of living have pushed an additional 100,000 New Yorkers into poverty, bringing the city’s poverty rate to 25 ...

Millions of people would be pushed into, or deeper into, poverty under Republican proposals that Congress could consider this ...

Students eat lunch at Carl Ben Eielson Middle School in Fargo on Jan. 22, 2025. Free school meal advocates in North Dakota ...

A majority of Texas House members have signed on as co-authors of a school voucher bill — a move that hints the Legislature ...

Some NH people who get their health insurance through Medicaid would have to start paying monthly premiums under Gov. Kelly ...

Researchers use a different metric than the federal government to measure poverty ... were in families with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty line — about $94,000 for a couple with ...