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 ...

In 2025, the U.S. government has updated the poverty thresholds, which are crucial for determining eligibility for various ...

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 ...

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 ...

Generating $27.7 trillion in 2023 alone, the United States is the world’s largest economy by a wide margin — and has been for ...

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 ...