When a political strategist argues that the "real" poverty line now sits around $140,000 a year, it captures a growing sense that traditional measures of hardship no longer match the lived reality of ...

(NewsNation) — A viral claim that $140,000 is the “real poverty line” has reignited debate over how poverty is defined and what it means to be middle class in 2025. Investor Michael Green recently ...

Stories move us. Numbers guide us. Together, they give us the power to act. Too often, conversations about poverty rely on stories or numbers but not both. We share a moving story of a child ...

A “viral” essay on household income has sparked debate over a polarizing question, said Julie Zauzmer Weil in The Washington Post: Just how many Americans are living in poverty? Michael Green, a Wall ...