To continue growing the middle class, Congress and the Biden administration should learn from what worked in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated recession that led to ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up for the first time in years, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Experts caution the trend, including an increasing child poverty rate, ...

Biden sharply criticized Republicans for not extending the child tax credit. The poverty rate in the United States increased last year, the first increase in 13 years, according to the Census Bureau.

Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising, according to ...

The number of children living in poverty in the United States more than doubled in 2022, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12, the biggest increase since it began ...

The child poverty rate in the United States more than doubled last year due to several possible factors, including the expiration of government benefits meant to get families through the COVID-19 ...

The share of Americans, particularly children, in poverty rose significantly last year, in large part because Congress did not renew a Covid-19 pandemic enhancement to the child tax credit, according ...

An influx of highly educated people from other states helped shift the state’s economic fortune. But in many parts of Texas, residents are struggling as jobs dry up. Yuchih Choy loads boxes of food ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, alongside the U.S. Census Bureau’s release of the 2022 poverty data, a new Center for American Progress article examines these new numbers and why they should be concerning ...