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 ...

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

Although the Census Bureau raises the federal poverty line each year in line with inflation data, experts say this benchmark hasn’t actually kept pace with America’s rising cost of living.

The Department of Education took additional steps this week that effectively blocks affordable repayment plans and student ...

In fact, a full-time worker who makes the federal minimum wage hovers around the federal poverty line. The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009. Working for minimum wage does ...

The government's fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in ...

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

Overall, It costs more than $38,000 annually to be middle-class, landing some families with household incomes of $74,580 just $6,556.54 over the federal poverty line (more on that below).

a report by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli s office showed that almost half of those kids are living in households with income that is 50% below the federal poverty line. That's considered deep ...

On average, earnings ranged from roughly $14 an hour for game day and cleaning staff, to $20 for maintenance workers and nearly $26 for stagehands.