The map shows that a large proportion of Southern and Western states have a higher percentage of child poverty at 14 percent or more, and includes states that have high levels of wealth like Texas ...

About 9.1 percent of people in working families lives in poverty and 26.3 percent lives in or near poverty. A fulltime worker supporting a family of two on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 ...

The survey— conducted by Hart Research Associates—revealed stark and sometimes unexpected results, and raised anew questions about poverty and inequality in one of the wealthiest countries in the ...

Poverty in the United States presents a complex mosaic of challenges and disparities. As the latest census data reveals — Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey — poverty rates ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population ... Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 people, were enslaved. Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots ...

These households could use more access to social assistance — but the US' poverty threshold is leaving them behind. If America modernized its way of measuring economic needs, millions of low ...