Teenagers at or near poverty level are much less likely than their higher-income counterparts to play sports, according to the Census Bureau...

Widows aren't as poor as they used to be. The poverty rate of widows fell from 20 to 13 percent between 1994 and 2014, according to the ...

The latest numbers from the Current Population Survey show that 21 percent of children under age 18 were poor in 2014. Even worse, nearly tw...

Turmoil is the norm for many children, according to a Census Bureau study. Among the nation's children under age 18, the 56 percent majo...

There's a lot of handwringing about the nation's poor, and well there should be. But keep this in mind as the debate rages: poverty ...

One in five Americans is poor or nearly poor, according to the Census Bureau. Fully 61 million of the nation's 311 million people were l...

Among Americans aged 65 or older, 23 percent have lost all their natural teeth. The percentage peaks at 58 percent among poor whites in nonm...

In a three-year time period, nearly one-third of Americans experienced poverty, according to a Census Bureau report. During the 36 months fr...

In 12 states, at least half the children under age 18 live in wireless-only households—meaning their household has a cell phone but no landl...

Only 9.1 percent of Americans aged 65 or older are poor—a lower poverty rate than in any other age group. Without Social Security, however, ...

In the nation as a whole, 301 nonmetropolitan counties are persistently poor. Persistent poverty means at least 20 percent of a county's...

Among the 147 million workers in the labor force for 27 or more weeks in 2011, 10 million (7.0 percent) did not earn enough to rise above th...

One in five American households is asset poor, according to the Urban Institute. Asset poverty is defined as not having enough net worth (we...

It is a well-known public health fact that 21 percent of Americans aged 18 or older smoke cigarettes. But here's a different way to look...

This morning the Census Bureau released 2010 poverty rates by county, with rankings of counties with the highest and lowest poverty rates. Z...

The number of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet with incomes between 100 and 150 percent of poverty level is huge. We know this...

The poverty rate has long needed an update. The way the United States officially defines poverty has not changed since the methodology was d...

Most of the states in which households are least likely to receive public assistance are also the states that rank among the poorest in the...

Percent of people aged 65 or older who are poor: 9.0%. Percent of people aged 65 or older who would be poor without Social Security: 48%. ...

Percentage of Americans aged 15 or older who are on welfare: 0.96% Source: Census Bureau