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 ...

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 ...

With the exception of a slight uptick during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. poverty rate has been trending downwards for over a decade. The Department of Health and Human Services has set the poverty ...

Over the decades, poverty rates in the United States have dropped significantly, thanks in large part to expanded government-funded programs. In 1979, the poverty rate stood at 13.3%, but by 2021 ...

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 ...