The claim that a family needs six figures just to avoid poverty sounds like a provocation, but it is rooted in a detailed attempt to price out a very ordinary American life. A Wall Street strategist ...

Wall Street strategist Michael Green caused a stir on social media last week with his outlandish claim that the federal poverty line should be raised to cover individuals earning as much as $140,000 ...

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans ...

Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are poised to disappear at year's end if Congress doesn't extend them. If that happens, households with incomes over 400% of the federal poverty line would be ...

A federal bill that would raise the poverty line to better reflect modern costs was reintroduced by U.S. Rep. Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, according to his office. Mullin first introduced the ...

Dana Brown-Toure, 52, says her life is in a place “somewhere between drowning and surviving.” A former health aide living on ...

Officials said the number of households in Ontario County living in or just above the federal poverty line has declined by almost 1,300. Roughly one in three households in the area’s six regions are ...