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 ...

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 ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...