As the chart shows, poverty didn’t increase under Trump’s presidency. Just the opposite: The overall poverty rate fell to match its lowest level ever officially recorded (since 1959), and ...

But a chart former President Donald Trump shared on social media — comparing a decline in poverty during his presidency with an increase in poverty during President Joe Biden’s — leaves out ...

With the World Bank raising its threshold poverty line to $3 a day (daily consumption of less than $3) from the earlier $2.15 ...

And then one day, I was looking at a graph and I saw something starting to change. The share of American children in poverty was declining substantially. And I decided to look further to ...

Poverty affects older adults uniquely due to their vulnerability in declining health and isolation. Lacking adequate income or retirement savings leaves many seniors unable to afford basics like ...

That means Black students are three times as likely as white students to attend a high-poverty school. The graph below shows the proportion of students enrolled at each of the four levels of ...

A misleading comparison of child poverty rates across Nordic countries and the UK has been made on social media by using incorrect and out-of-date data. A Sept. 11 post, opens new tab titled ...