As of February, 21% of Texans who enrolled in a plan through the federal marketplace did not pay their first premium.

Almost half of all households in New York are struggling to afford basic necessities, with 48% of employed households facing financial hardship, according to a report from United For ALICE.

From 2005 to 2023, per capita health care spending was highest and grew most rapidly among Americans in the top income ...

Sri Lanka’s official poverty line has been revised to Rs. 17,117 per person per month for April 2026, according to the latest update published by the Department of Census and Statistics. The figure ...

A means test is a formula that uses someone's income to determine their eligibility for assistance or benefits. A means test ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — Poverty in New York has reached its highest level in more than a decade, according to the latest Poverty Tracker report from the Robin Hood Foundation and Columbia University.

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When it was first developed in 1963, the poverty threshold was set at the cost of a minimal diet defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Back then, a family of two adults and two children under ...

Social Security’s trust fund is projected to run dry in 2032, prompting a contentious reform debate replete with images of impoverished elderly and wheelchair-bound grandmothers being pushed off ...

But it may come at the cost of housing affordability. The Pacific Northwest is outpacing the country in housing costs, with higher median gross rents in Oregon and Washington than the rest of the U.S.

This week, the USDA’s Economic Research Service released its annual Rural America at a Glance report, which provides a high-level look at social and economic conditions in nonmetropolitan (rural) ...

ABSTRACT: The rapid expansion of hydropower infrastructure in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) necessitates robust Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) strategies to mitigate habitat ...