Would it help poverty or hurt the perception of poverty to call a six-figure family “poor”? A recent example of a claim that ...

Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

Ali Velshi on how Donald Trump's gaslighting address on the economy ignores the struggle for Americans in poverty ...

The Trump administration is considering changing the way the government measures poverty, which has anti-poverty groups worried that many low-income individuals will be pushed off assistance programs ...

If the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has its way, a new federal poverty calculation will underestimate the number of families — and children — living in poverty even more than it does ...

Almost 45 percent of students were eligible for free and reduced lunch at Hillsboro schools last year. That figure that has increased by 10 percentage points overall since 2003, though it peaked in ...

This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation. Read all of our Day One Agenda articles here. It’s often cited that four out of ten ...

Few things in American politics have been more hotly and consistently argued in the last half-century than the legacy of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. In a 1986 speech on welfare reform, ...