Newly released data shows, in 2022, 12.4% of Americans lived in poverty, up from 7.8% in 2021, the bureau said, representing millions more living without the minimum level of resources to meet ...

Child poverty showed a similar trend, dropping from 9% to 5.2% between 2020 and 2021, but rising more than two-fold in 2022. All of the Western states experienced drastic increases in poverty.

Last year, 11.6% of people in the U.S. lived below the federal poverty level, a number that has ticked up in recent years, according to the Census Bureau. Experts say those numbers may be even ...

Poverty is on the rise in the Golden State, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, increasing from 11.7% in the fall of 2021 to 13.2% in the first quarter of this year. While ...

Oklahoma stands out from the group of states listed in this column for being the only one to still have a minimum wage that equals the federal rate of $7.25 per hour, meaning that a full-time ...

Poverty increased sharply last year in the United States, ... The poverty rate rose to 12.4 percent in 2022 from 7.8 percent in 2021, ... The increasing cost of living added to the challenge last ...