Millions of American families fell into poverty last year as the well of government-funded pandemic aid dried up and incomes shrank, according to new data from the U.S. Census. Children were ...

Data: National Women's Law Center calculations based on Census Bureau, Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements data. Chart: Axios Visuals A broad measure of poverty for ...

As pandemic subsidies disappeared, wages kept workers just ahead of inflation, although gaps have widened for some groups. Data is the “supplemental” poverty rate, which accounts for taxes and ...

Millions more children were in poverty in 2022 than in 2021. That's after Congress ended monthly checks to parents as part of the expanded child tax credit. The poverty rate for all people also ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom often boasts that California, if it were a country, would have the world’s fourth-largest economy. But despite its wealth, the state has also seen a sharp increase in poverty since ...

The share of New York City residents who could not afford basic essentials jumped dramatically in 2022, with one in four children living in poverty, a new report found. By Stefanos Chen After several ...

Syracuse has one of the highest child poverty rates in the U.S. among larger cities, according to new census estimates released Thursday. The city’s child poverty rate of 45.8% was the second-highest ...

Over one in five people in the European Union was at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2024, according to the latest Eurostat figures. Despite a slight decrease of 0.4 percentage points compared ...