A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

Financial analyst Michael Green suggests the official poverty line of $32,000 per year for a family of four in the U.S. is ...

A viral claim that $140K is the "real poverty line" has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

Affordability discourse is useless if it's not accurate, and politicians should strive to accurately describe Americans' ...

American households earning well into the middle six figures increasingly say they feel squeezed, not secure, as housing, ...

U.S. Rep. Kevin Mullin introduced a bill Wednesday, Dec. 6, to update the federal poverty line and incorporate regional cost-of-living differences, citing an antiquated formula that hasn’t seen ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up for the first time in years, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Experts caution the trend, including an increasing child poverty rate, ...

The current poverty level – inflation adjusted from that 1963 base – is $31,200 for a family of four. I think we can all ...

Houston has a higher percentage of residents living in poverty among the largest cities in the United States, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. One out of five residents — ...

To determine the metro areas with the highest poverty rates in the nation, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed one-year estimates of the percentage of people who live below the poverty line in each metropolitan ...