Social Security payments lift an estimated 23.5 million people above the poverty line, a new report has found.

Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.

Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...

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When it was first developed in 1963, the poverty threshold was set at the cost of a minimal diet defined by the U.S.