Poverty

About one-in-four Black households and one-in-seven Hispanic households had no wealth or were in debt in 2021, compared with about one-in-ten U.S. households overall.

The food stamp program is one of the larger federal social welfare initiatives, and in its current form has been around for nearly six decades.

Nearly four-in-ten men ages 25 to 29 now live with older relatives.

Fewer than half of Black adults say they have a three-month emergency fund, and some have taken multiple jobs to make ends meet.

Immigrants – particularly those from African nations – are a growing share of the U.S. Black population.

About six-in-ten Americans (62%) say they favor raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, including 40% who strongly back the idea.

The course of the pandemic in India and China will have a substantial effect on changes in the distribution of income at the global level.

The $7.25 federal minimum wage is used in just 21 states, which collectively account for about 40% of all U.S. wage and salary workers.

In 2019, the share of American children living in poverty was on a downward trajectory, reaching record lows across racial and ethnic groups.

The gender gap in party identification remains the widest in a quarter century.