Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty ...

Madam Speaker, a key facet of macroeconomic stability is prudent fiscal management that advances socioeconomic obligations. Our fiscal strategy involves four key features: • Support economic growth by ...

The median household income in Jackson is $42,848 compared to $64,004 countywide, with residents citing lack of living-wage ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

Medicaid ensures that people of all ages have access to the health care they need, covering 2 in 5 children, 1 in 6 non-elderly adults, and 1 in 7 seniors nationwide.

Among Black adults, 77% have at least one non-relative they consider family. This might be someone with whom they share childhood experiences, religious beliefs, an identity such as race or gender, or ...