Hundreds of needy people line up around the block to receive food from embattled 14th District Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de León, during a free food distribution outside his council office ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

More New York children fell into poverty after the Covid-19 pandemic while other children in the country saw improvement, according to a new report from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Data: U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey; Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Despite our wages being up, so is the share of Indianapolis residents living below the poverty line. Why it matters: ...