See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Poverty jumped by nearly 5 percent in 2022, the first such rise in more ...

Poverty is on the rise, but only among seniors, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual poverty report. Based on the official measure, which is a simple calculation based on pretax cash income ...

Hundreds of needy people line up around the block to receive food from embattled 14th District Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de León, during a free food distribution outside his council office ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...

Figure 4b: The poorest regions are furthest behind and contribute more to the Global Prosperity Gap relative to their population in 2024 Figure 5: Limited gains in the Global Gap due to a slowdown of ...

Over 11% of the U.S. population — about one in nine people — lived below the federal poverty line in 2021. But Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says neither that statistic, nor the federal ...

The number of Americans living in poverty, according to the nation’s official definition, fell slightly to about 36.8 million in 2023, the Census Bureau announced on Sept. 10, 2024. The data released ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...