Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michiganders are making just as much money but more have health insurance now than before the pandemic, according to census data ...

The share of children in poverty fell by nearly half in 2021, thanks mainly to a one-year enhancement of the enhanced child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Some 5.2% of ...

A measure that accounts for all federal subsidies also showed a reduction of almost half in the number of children below the poverty level. By Lydia DePillis and Jason DeParle See more of our coverage ...

The U.S. government’s most accurate measure of child poverty fell to 5.2% in 2021, the lowest level on record and a decline of 4.5 percentage points from a year earlier. This sharp reduction was due, ...

An important set of economic numbers were reported Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, that tell us about poverty. The official poverty rate was 11.6% in 2021, basically unchanged from 2020. It’s a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - While median income and overall poverty rates did not change much in the United States in 2021 during the second year of the pandemic, Cleveland remains the big city in Ohio with the ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mary O'Grady, Jillian Melchior and Dan Henninger. Image: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP via Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and ...

Coming out of the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty levels in Dallas County showed in 2021 a minimal decline from previous years, although they remained higher than the ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up for the first time in years, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Experts caution the trend, including an increasing child poverty rate, ...