About 9.1 percent of people in working families lives in poverty and 26.3 percent lives in or near poverty. A fulltime worker supporting a family of two on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 ...

Home to less than 5% of the global population, while accounting for over 26% of gross domestic product globally the United ...

Click “More maps” to see the impact on different demographic groups. Data by state: While the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, many states and cities have increased the minimum ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has set the poverty line at an annual income of $15,650 for individuals and $32,150 for a family of four in the continental United States, with slightly ...

We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry, household moves to healthier neighborhoods, and ...