Higher health care costs could be what's pushing more of the elderly into poverty.

The number of people under the official poverty line in the United States is higher than it has been in 50 years: more than 46 million people, more…

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

There's a certain necessary arbitrariness in a lot of economic measurements. Somebody's got to decide how much inflation is good and how much is…