Over the last 50 years, the proportion of Americans living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged. In 2023, 11 percent of American’s lived below the poverty line. In 1973, that number was also 11 ...

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 ...

American households earning well into the middle six figures increasingly say they feel squeezed, not secure, as housing, health care and child care costs outpace their paychecks. The claim that ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. How much does an American family of four need to earn to avoid poverty? According to the Census Bureau, ...

The United States remains the richest country in the world. Given that fact, we should be leading the world in helping those who are “poor,” in America and around the globe. And we have done so. That ...

My AEI colleague Mark Warshawsky recently wrote an excellent summary of policy reasons not to extend the COVID-era enhanced ACA subsidies. His explainer adds to a substantial body of work (examples ...