A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

Looking back at 19th-century antipoverty activists could help break the contemporary impasse between liberals and conservatives in their efforts to battle poverty, writes Mr. Schwartz, a program ...

Poverty is on the rise, but only among seniors, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual poverty report. Based on the official measure, which is a simple calculation based on pretax cash income ...

Would it help poverty or hurt the perception of poverty to call a six-figure family “poor”? A recent example of a claim that extends well beyond the reach of economic experts is that “the actual ...

Here’s the thing — if you want to reduce the number of people facing poverty in Columbia, you need to donate either money or time to addressing the associated problems. You say you do not have enough ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently released a report that illustrates how simple, practical action by the government can dramatically improve the lives of impoverished elderly and ...

Stanford scholars Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon have spent the past five years leading a team of researchers to home in on an efficient way to find and track impoverished zones across ...

Child & Family Service President and CEO Amanda Pump on Monday introduced Marcella Wilson, founder and CEO of Transition to Success, who spoke via teleconference to the group at the Prince Waikiki.

While the economy was a key topic of discussion for the two presidential candidates when they met on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday, the duel ended without explicit consideration of ...

Lyra, a three-and-a-half-month-old baby, sits quietly in her dad Dash’s arms as the upstairs room at Deptford Family Hub in South East London slowly fills with council and charity workers. She is ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Louise Skolnik, professor emeritus of social work at Adelphi University and former Nassau County director of human services and deputy commissioner of the county ...