The poverty line today is still calculated based on a 1963 formula, which Simplify Asset Management's Michael Green believes ...

Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

Financial analyst Michael Green suggests the official poverty line of $32,000 per year for a family of four in the U.S. is ...

A wealth manager wrote that $140,000 a year means poverty in today's America, sparking controversy. He's wrong, but he made a ...

Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.

While lawmakers, policymakers, and President Donald Trump weigh what to do about booming prices, financial analyst Michael ...

What is the best way for government to measure poverty in Ohio? As some suggest using the cost of goods weighed against family income, the approach would fail to differentiate between families getting ...

At least from a material perspective, things have never been better for many if not most Americans: Their homes are larger and have more amenities. More of them than ever before have access to basic ...

Total falsehoods: "I want for people to recognize a great job that I've done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down," said President Donald Trump on Monday. (The White House ...

Houston has a higher percentage of residents living in poverty among the largest cities in the United States, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. One out of five residents — ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...