The Trump administration’s latest reported purge at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may be one of its most consequential yet — silently dismantling the small, crucial office that ...

Leading American poverty researcher Mark Robert Rank joins the Utterly Moderate Podcast to discuss his Poverty Risk Calculator and the risk Americans face of experiencing poverty throughout their ...

The cost of basics like housing and food rose, while incomes and other resources, like public benefits, did not keep up.

Sometimes, numbers don't tell the whole story. At times, they even tell the wrong story. Take Long Island's poverty rate, which in 2022 stood at 5.9%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American ...