Each year, HHS is required to adjust the poverty figures from the U.S. Census Bureau for inflation. These updated numbers ...

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal ...

A video that looks like a news report says President Trump raised the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour. See the Mississippi pay rate, what to know ...

Each year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updates the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), a critical tool used to determine eligibility for Medicaid and other assi ...

These households could use more access to social assistance — but the US' poverty threshold is leaving them behind. If America modernized its way of measuring economic needs, millions of low ...

President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty over 50 years ago — and while poverty has never been completely eliminated in the United States, it has become markedly less common in recent years.

In the late 1990s the U.S. began exporting thousands of convicts back to Central America each year. In the vacuum of weak governance and poverty in their home country, gang members reproduced ...