As climate change causes the plant to warm and people crank up their air-conditioning, Americans are spending increasingly more money on their energy bills. This means more people are experiencing ...

The main gauge of the U.S. poverty rate did not change significantly in 2024 at 12.9%, the U.S. Census Bureau said on Tuesday ...

Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched his own financial advisory firm in 2018. Thomas' experience gives him expertise in a ...

As pandemic subsidies disappeared, wages kept workers just ahead of inflation, although gaps have widened for some groups.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Nine percent of Sioux Falls lives in poverty according to the most recent data. While a lot of us will never know what that’s like, some students at the University of Sioux ...

Financial writer Tim Harford, author of the new book The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, says the poverty line for a single American in 2012 was $30.52 per day. But Harford, talking with NPR's ...

Some estimates say up to one in seven people are living in poverty, but Australia doesn’t properly measure it. Here’s how we ...

Policy Director of the Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy With this, the Child Tax Credit is making headlines not seen since its temporary—now expired—2021 expansion. And not a ...

Recently released 2024 U.S census data show little progress on child poverty, with the numbers slightly down from 2023.

New federal data shows the Mid-South ranks number one for child poverty, again. "Children have done nothing to deserve ...

So what are these benefits, exactly? Well, the overall average monthly Social Security benefit for retirees was $2,007 as of ...