SSI reform is far more cost-effective than fighting poverty through Social Security.

In a prior blog post, we reviewed key issues needed to understand the overall picture in this week’s Census poverty report. Next, we turn to the important subject of child poverty. Whenever the Census ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

Poverty rose in 2024 because the energy allowancewas discontinued; however, there was an increase in child allowance for families. The energy allowance led to a reduction in the poverty rate in 2022 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse’s children struggle with some of the worst poverty in the entire country and have done so for years, but new census data released in March shows just how dire the situation ...