Last week, for the second week in a row, new federal statistics revealed that hardship in America was at or near an all-time low in 2020—a year that saw a once-in-a-century pandemic upend economic and ...

Few things are more frustrating than when the government releases statistics that require an explanation from technical experts for anyone to make sense of them. But flaws and unduly complicated ...

The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released ...

Poverty in the United States fell last year, even amid the impact of the pandemic, due to government aid, including relief payments and unemployment insurance. That's according to new data just ...

Alex J. Rouhandeh serves as a special correspondent for Newsweek. Previously, he served as Newsweek's congressional correspondent, reporting from Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In 2025, Alex ...

Volunteers fill boxes at the Food Bank for the Heartland distribution warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska, on Dec. 8, 2021. FRONTLINE has tracked how poverty affects American families with children across ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. A mother and son living in a Walmart parking lot in North Dakota in 2012.Credit...Eugene Richards Supported by ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Two out of every five students in Syracuse city schools are living in poverty, data recently released by the United States Census Bureau shows. Syracuse City School District ranked ...

Use U.S. Census Bureau poverty data to explore more than a dozen topics that measure the health of the economy at the state and congressional district levels. The U.S. Census Bureau could not provide ...

After Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer for Evicted, about families struggling to stay housed, the Princeton sociologist realized he still didn't understand why the U.S. has more poverty than any other ...

Use U.S. Census Bureau poverty data to compare states across more than a dozen topics that measure the health of the economy. The U.S. Census Bureau could not provide its typical state and ...