Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the ...

Census defines a family as poor if its income falls below ... Only 7 percent of poor households are over-crowded. The average poor American has more living space than the average, non-poor ...

The average American has personal wealth of about $393,000, according to the World Inequality Database. It might surprise you to learn that someone with that kind of net worth is not "wealthy ...

The poor, the professionals, and the missing middle need policies that allow them to achieve the American Dream, write Heather Boushey and Joan C. Williams in this report. Work-family conflict is ...

The following is an excerpt from author Brian Reisinger’s Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family’s Hope and the Untold History of ...

Here's what to know about where you fall in the American ... than the federal poverty thresholds. Understanding whether you fall within a certain income threshold, based on family size and income ...

She based her calculations on the cost of feeding a family of four ... and $30,000 spend 14.1%. Poor households also spend more on healthcare expenses. The average American household devotes ...

We calculate that if the U.S. were to adopt the tax-and-transfer generosity of its peer countries, the cycle of American poverty could decline by more than one-third. [Annie Lowrey: The case for ...