Poverty led to social problems across America. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr blamed poverty as a cause of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1965.

The child poverty rate doubled in 2022, increasing for the first time since 2010, and increased again last year.

But, if the Democrats want to do more than just win, if they want to put populism to bed, they have to start to offer solutions to the root cause of voters’ problems—poverty. What I witnessed in ...

The Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council voted to release the report, with recommendations costing a projected $9 billion ...

It was becoming increasingly unrealistic to expect that the goal of reducing extreme poverty to below 3 percent would be attained at the global level by 2030, unless there was a widespread and ...

More than 38 million people live in poverty in the United States—the wealthiest country in the world ... and worker rights groups, and support state-level advocacy on climate policies that impact ...

OECD claims United States has higher elderly poverty ... In other words, the OECD’s measure of old-age poverty isn’t about the level of U.S. seniors’ incomes but about the distribution ...

We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry, household moves to healthier neighborhoods, and ...

The relationship between serious mental illness and poverty in the United States cultivates a crippling cycle: Those living with a serious mental illness are more likely to be unemployed ...

Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in a report on Tuesday, ...