Legacy Topic: Wealth & Poverty

The number of poor children drops under unofficial poverty measure that counts benefits such as food stamps and costs such as childcare.

More Americans are living in communities with poverty rates of at least 40 percent, especially in the the Midwest, the South and in the suburbs. A new report from Brookings says it's harder to escape such concentrated poverty.

Economy 4.0's David Brancaccio discusses the Census Bureau's new nuanced measurement of poverty and how it gives us a better understanding of who's poor.