The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...

The federal poverty level (FPL) affects everything from health ... According to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data, the official poverty rate fell 0.4 percentage points to 11.1% in 2023.

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The official poverty rate was 12.3% in 2017 ... a vastly higher number than the federal poverty thresholds. Understanding whether you fall within a certain income threshold, based on family ...

You can look back at what’s happened before, like how the Census Bureau adjusts the federal poverty level every year for inflation, which can give clues about what might happen in the future.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill wants to recalculate the federal poverty line to reflect states’ varying costs of living so that struggling residents in high-cost states like New Jersey don’t lose out on benefits ...

Nearly one in five children in New York live in poverty, and about 370,000 kids face deep poverty in a household with income 50% below the federal poverty line, the state Comptroller’s Office ...