The child poverty rate in California nearly tripled from 2021 to 2024 — 7.5% to 18.6% — and is now the fourth highest in the country, according to new KIDS COUNT data from the Annie E. Casey ...

Rising tariffs have historically contributed to higher consumer prices in the United States. Research on past tariff ...

In late November 2025, Michael W. Green, chief strategist and portfolio manager at Simplify Asset Management, published a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aisha Nyandoro is a leading voice on equitable economic policies. A recent AP-NORC poll reveals a pervasive misunderstanding about ...

The level rose slightly on the previous year while the number of children living in poverty has remained steady.

What a cruel irony: The president whose policy obsession from Day 1 in the Oval Office has been not to grow the economy but to reduce income inequality has presided over a near-record surge in the ...

Every few years, Washington rediscovers fraud. A viral clip of someone misusing food stamps. A headline about child care providers in Minnesota. A politician promising to crack down on “fraud and ...

INTERNATIONAL money transfers from foreign workers to their families at home reduce poverty in developing economies, with stronger cash inflows linked to declines in poverty incidence, depth and ...

As climate change causes the plant to warm and people crank up their air-conditioning, Americans are spending increasingly more money on their energy bills. This means more people are experiencing ...

For students heading into education or healthcare, understanding people from different backgrounds is often key. At the University of Sioux Falls, students got a hands-on lesson through a poverty ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...