The rent, as we all know, is too damn high. So is California’s poverty rate. The two things are related. That’s the ...

California’s housing crisis is a major contributor to poverty across the state, new research shows. High housing costs ...

Child poverty fell to 20.9%, lifting New Mexico from 50th to 48th, though the state remains among the poorest.

Above-average housing costs in Maryland account for 21% of measured poverty in the state, according to a Pew report.

The housing shortage in the United States not only drives up rents, it is also a significant driver of poverty, according to ...

California tied Louisiana for the nation’s highest poverty rate in 2024, with 7 million people—or 17.7 percent of the state’s population—living below adjusted income thresholds. The numbers come from ...

New research links housing scarcity and higher rents to increased poverty. In the most affected states, up to 34 percent of ...

President Donald Trump claimed that the U.S. has the “best poverty numbers in history,” meaning less poverty now than at any ...

California’s official poverty rate, which currently matches the national average of 10.7%, has always been a misleading stat.

Poverty among Americans 65 and older has jumped roughly 45% since 2019 — the highest rate of any age group, according to a new analysis.

The state recorded a 19.6% poverty rate from 2023 to 2025, with the South seeing the highest rates nationwide.