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, according to the Census Bureau. Experts say those numbers may be even higher ...

The Obama administration Tuesday embraced an alternative way of defining what it means to be poor, stepping gingerly into a long-running debate over whether to revise the method that has been used to ...

The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and ...

WASHINGTON The ranks of America s poor are greater than previously known, reaching a new level of 49.1 million or 16 percent due to rising medical costs and other expenses that make it harder for ...

WASHINGTON -- The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical ...

Nearly one in four New Yorkers are living below the poverty line, according to Mayor Bloomberg, who says the federal government is underestimating the number of poor people in the city. The Bloomberg ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed. A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has proposed an alternative formula for determining poverty, saying the U.S. government has been too slow to update criteria that fail to account for regional ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Paule Pachter, president and chief executive of Long Island Cares, Inc. — The Harry Chapin Regional Food Bank in Hauppauge. I am often asked by elected officials ...

India is wrestling with an important question: How do you count the poor if you can't agree on the definition of poverty? Debate over redrawing the poverty line—the product of reams of academic ...