State media, embracing the gaming phrase “kill line,” is asserting China’s political superiority over the United States, ...

As housing becomes increasingly costly, over 1 million Americans live without running water, even in affluent cities, new research shows.

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

The Bay Area’s poverty rate rose from 12.2% in early 2023 to 16.3% by the end of the same year, marking a 4.1% increase. The cost of living in the Bay Area is also outpacing income growth. Tipping ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Fewer Staten Islanders are struggling to make ends meet, with recently released census data showing that the number of borough residents living in poverty has dropped more than ...

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 ...

California is nothing if not a land of contrast. It is a state of astounding economic might, yet it carries the highest ...

I spent the first 18 years of my life living in public-housing projects. My childhood was as poor as it gets in America. I’ve also seen what being poor is like in places like Mexico, Colombia, and the ...

An estimated 417 million children in low- and middle-income countries are living in extreme poverty. Millions of children in high-income countries are also suffering. And more children are at risk of ...