We calculate that if the U.S. were to adopt the tax-and-transfer generosity of its peer countries, the cycle of American poverty could decline by more than one-third. Annie Lowrey: The case for ...

The poor, the professionals, and the missing middle need policies that allow them to achieve the American Dream, write Heather Boushey and Joan C. Williams in this report. Work-family conflict is ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...

The average American has personal wealth of about $393,000, according to the World Inequality Database. It might surprise you to learn that someone with that kind of net worth is not "wealthy ...