Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year, 11.6% of people in the U.S. lived below the federal poverty level, a number that has ticked up in recent years, ...

In late November 2025, Michael W. Green, chief strategist and portfolio manager at Simplify Asset Management, published a ...

In this post I discuss the policy implications of declaring the Supplemental Poverty Measure the new official measure, an action that could be taken unilaterally by the Director of the Office of ...

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people living in poverty in the U.S. decreased for the fifth consecutive year. Roughly 37 million people, or 11.4 percent of the total ...