A prominent strategist contends that the real "poverty line" for a family of four is $140,000, not the official threshold of ...

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

Total falsehoods: "I want for people to recognize a great job that I've done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down," said President Donald Trump on Monday. (The White House ...

The claim that a family needs six figures just to avoid poverty sounds like a provocation, but it is rooted in a detailed attempt to price out a very ordinary American life. A Wall Street strategist ...

When socialist muckraker Upton Sinclair dropped his gonzo exposé on the abysmal working conditions of Chicago’s meatpacking industry, the public was enraptured and horrified by the serial that ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

The real poverty line should be set at $140,000 to meet growing costs for housing, childcare and other expenses, a strategist argues. The recovery in markets looked set to continue, after the New York ...

While lawmakers, policymakers and President Donald Trump weigh what to do about booming prices, financial analyst Michael Green argues that Americans today are wrestling with a poverty line that is ...