The massive tax cut legislation passed by the House and Senate this week will dramatically upend health care in America. The ...

United Way of Central Shenandoah Valley's Amanda Leech came before the Staunton City Council to explain what that has meant ...

An inside look at how already struggling communities in Mississippi and Louisiana could be affected by the Medicaid cuts in the new federal tax and spending bill.

A recent study by the Appalachian Regional Commission is comparing rural Appalachia to the rest of rural America.

A study in The Lancet suggests that cuts to USAID could result in the death of 14 million people over the next five years.

The world’s nations are gathering in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor ...

What's the dollar amount that officially makes someone 'poor' in America? The new 2025 federal poverty guidelines reveal the ...

The World Bank has updated its global poverty lines. This latest revision uses 2021 purchasing power parities, as well as updated national poverty lines that better capture countries’ household ...

The official poverty rate, as measured by the US Census, is seriously outdated. It was developed in 1963 by an economist at the Social Security Administration, and it determined that the threshold ...

About 1 in 9 Americans are facing poverty today. But more than half of the people residing in the US will experience poverty at some point in their adult lives.

Furthermore, this percentage surged to 11.6% in 2021, which translates to 37.9 million people living in poverty in the United States. However, the percentage declined slightly to 11.5% in 2022–23.