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 ...

The minimum wage has been $7.25 for 13 years in the US ... due to the increase — which research finds is a likely scenario — nearly 7.6 million people would be lifted out of poverty, the ...

The report predicted that child poverty levels will increase by 4% nationally between 2015/16 to 2021/22. Benefit changes - including the roll-out of universal credit - will account for three ...