The graph shows the percent child poverty is reduced by each federal program for families that are in "deep poverty," defined as people who live at 50 percent or below of the "supplemental poverty ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...

One of the four principal goals of the welfare reform of 1996 was to increase married two-parent families. The current welfare reform proposals advanced by President George W. Bush and recently ...