Dominating the book is an image of institutional space, beige, concrete, and lightless: the warehouse, the hospital, the ...

A new study of Ohio families has revealed that children from two-parent homes are more likely to succeed in life.

The report examined the percentage of adults who are married, have children, and raise them together through their children’s ...

We calculate that if the U.S. were to adopt the tax-and-transfer generosity of its peer countries, the cycle of American poverty could decline by more than one-third. [Annie Lowrey: The case for ...

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

The average American has personal wealth of about $393,000, according to the World Inequality Database. It might surprise you to learn that someone with that kind of net worth is not "wealthy ...

Here's what to know about where you fall in the American ... than the federal poverty thresholds. Understanding whether you fall within a certain income threshold, based on family size and income ...