A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

A viral claim that $140K is the "real poverty line" has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

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Efforts to combat global poverty remain unchanged in part because of severe cutbacks in American international aid, ...

A college education is not the ticket out of poverty that it used to be. A Dallas Morning News analysis of data from the U.S.

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 higher ...