According to the recent U.S. Census Bureau data, there are currently 38 million people living in poverty— and 21 million are women. And among them, next to Indian/Non-Hispanic women, Black women have ...

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A new report released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates a major jump in 2022 in the number of impoverished children in the nation. According to the data, the supplemental poverty measure among ...

To continue growing the middle class, Congress and the Biden administration should learn from what worked in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated recession that led to ...

While the economy was a key topic of discussion for the two presidential candidates when they met on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday, the duel ended without explicit consideration of ...

Even as inflation remains high and COVID stubbornly persists, economic indicators show a potential for remarkable resiliency when the political will exists. New data from the U.S. Census Bureau ...

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Syracuse, N.Y. — Poverty among children in Syracuse improved in 2021, but the city still has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the nation, according to new census data. The city’s poverty ...