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

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty ...

As reported by the US Census Bureau, the official US poverty rate was 11.5% in 2022, with 37.9 million Americans in poverty. Although the rate has not changed substantially since the preceding year, ...

Siti lives in South Philadelphia with her husband and two children. They have trouble keeping pace with inflation, she says. (Emma Lee/WHYY) This story is from Young, Unhoused and Unseen, a podcast ...