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 ...

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 ...

Generating $27.7 trillion in 2023 alone, the United States is the world’s largest economy by a wide margin — and has been for many decades. The strength of the American economy is reflected, in part, ...

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 ...

(2012). The research supplemental poverty measure: 2011. Suitland: US Census Bureau. US Census Bureau (2017). Annual estimates of the resident population by sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin for the ...