Affordability discourse is useless if it's not accurate, and politicians should strive to accurately describe Americans' financial realities ...

A viral claim that $140K is the “real poverty line” has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

When a political strategist argues that the "real" poverty line now sits around $140,000 a year, it captures a growing sense that traditional measures of hardship no longer match the lived reality of ...

A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...