Dana Brown-Toure, 52, says her life is in a place “somewhere between drowning and surviving.” A former health aide living on ...

Each September, the US Census Bureau releases its annual report on “Income and Poverty in the United States,” summarizing data collected in the year prior. This year, many people will dismiss the ...

The Trump administration is considering changing the way the government measures poverty, which has anti-poverty groups worried that many low-income individuals will be pushed off assistance programs ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa --- Roughly 70,000 fewer Iowans are categorized as living in poverty between 2009 and 2011 under an alternative method the federal government is using to measure economic well-being.