It’s a sobering statistic: half of all public students in the country are economically disadvantaged. That’s the headline that came out earlier this year, prompted by a report from the Southern ...

The graph shows the percent child poverty is reduced by each federal program for families that are in "deep poverty," defined as people who live at 50 percent or below of the "supplemental poverty ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...