President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans ...

A massive crowd of New Yorkers from across the labor movement and allies march to demand the current administration to stop the federal cuts as right-wing politicians in Washington are moving forward ...

The small group of experts who were laid off worked on the technical data essential to the guidelines, which help decide eligibility for programs like Medicaid, food assistance, and child care.

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has recently updated the federal poverty level guidelines for 2025. For taxpayers who reside in the mainland U.S., the poverty level to be used for the ...

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans ...

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 ...

Federal guidelines in 2023 set the poverty threshold for a family of four at $30,000. The study laid bare the vast gap between poverty as defined by official measures and economic hardship as it’s ...

President Donald Trump's firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans ...