Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

Could a new approach to defining persistent poverty actually hurt rural communities? A rural American small town with a two-lane paved road and a church steeple. One of the federal government’s key ...

Conservatives have been talking about growing inequality, creating a new lexicon of anti-poverty terminology. But this is just a new way of speaking about the same old policies that will result in ...