After the worst economic downturn in nearly a century, men continue to earn more than women in 361 metropolitan areas in the country, an annual survey by the Census Bureau found. If current trends continue, [...]

"In America women have in fact made considerable progress in getting into a range of jobs that used to be male preserves, according to a recent paper by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a [...]

"A difference of one percentage point in the overall poverty rate is no big deal. But the new Supplemental Poverty Measure , or S.P.M., developed by the Census Bureau , which yields the slightly higher [...]

"It goes back to 1963. A statistician named Mollie Orshansky, working for the Social Security Administration, was asked to come up with a mathematical equation for determining who was poor by government standards. Not even [...]

"It goes back to 1963. A statistician named Mollie Orshansky, working for the Social Security Administration, was asked to come up with a mathematical equation for determining who was poor by government standards. Not even [...]

"The Census Bureau released a new unofficial count of poverty in America on Monday, showing about 16 percent of the population live at or below the poverty line. Ray Suarez discusses the new numbers with [...]