Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is a "lie" — that is, wildly disconnected from ...

The Trump administration is considering changing the way the government measures poverty, which has anti-poverty groups worried that many low-income individuals will be pushed off assistance programs ...

As averaged from 2013 to 2015, California had America’s 17 th-highest poverty rate, 15 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But, by a newer, more comprehensive Census accounting, California’s ...

The “starving student” is more than a stereotype of a challenging slice of one’s life. College kids are a noteworthy economic force for a campus and its surrounding community — both good and bad.