American households earning well into the middle six figures increasingly say they feel squeezed, not secure, as housing, ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

A little more than 1 in 10, that's how many working-age Hoosiers live below the official poverty line. A new report from the Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute suggests that the number is ...

In the Bible, Jesus traveled around Galilee and Judea preaching the good news to underserved communities. He was often surrounded by those of meager means and in one story, he fed a crowd of some ...

When we talk about poverty- you always think about somebody else right? Poor?...Me?...Not me. Well, a report released today says when you look at poverty in terms of ...

A new report contends that 20 percent of American jobs pay lower than poverty-level wages. The Associated Press write-up notes that in 2002, the poverty threshold was $18,244 for a family of four with ...

A School of Social Work faculty member is helping redefine the country’s definition of being poor with research that shows the dramatic difference between achieving “basic economic security” and the ...

The Jackson anti-poverty task force met for its first meeting and left with a question that will set the agenda for the committee going forward, and that's how to define poverty. "Poverty is the state ...

Singapore may be the richest country in the world but the number of poor households living in the prosperous city-state has been rising in recent years. To highlight the extent of poverty in Singapore ...