Last week, for the second week in a row, new federal statistics revealed that hardship in America was at or near an all-time low in 2020—a year that saw a once-in-a-century pandemic upend economic and ...

The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released ...

Poverty in the United States fell last year, even amid the impact of the pandemic, due to government aid, including relief payments and unemployment insurance. That's according to new data just ...

Amid the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and an economic recession, government aid in the form of stimulus checks and boosted unemployment payouts helped push the supplemental U.S. poverty rate down ...

Alex J. Rouhandeh serves as a special correspondent for Newsweek. Previously, he served as Newsweek's congressional correspondent, reporting from Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In 2025, Alex ...

U.S. poverty fell overall in 2020, a surprising decline largely due to the swift and substantial federal relief that Congress enacted at the start of the pandemic to try to prevent widespread ...

Use U.S. Census Bureau poverty data to compare states across more than a dozen topics that measure the health of the economy. The U.S. Census Bureau could not provide its typical state and ...

How would you summarize the effects of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on poverty? We estimate that between 88 million and 115 million additional people will be pushed into extreme poverty in 2020, bringing ...

Seniors are the only age group that saw a rise in poverty in 2024, Census Bureau data show. Without government help, it could ...

After Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer for Evicted, about families struggling to stay housed, the Princeton sociologist realized he still didn't understand why the U.S. has more poverty than any other ...

Attitudes Toward Striving for Quality and Length of Life Among Patients With Advanced Cancer and a Poor Prognosis We examined characteristics of impoverished cancer survivors in the United States, ...