A unique analysis of district-level data reveals why inequality is so destructive to the home consumption welfare of people living below the poverty ...

with 25 per cent of those below the poverty line being single parent households. Rachelwas happily married and a mother to five-year-old Zoe and baby Scarlett when her husband Steve was diagnosed with ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

The World Bank defines poverty using the International Poverty Line, which designates extreme poverty at $2.15 per person per day, while $3.65 falls under the lower-middle income category ...

Laura (left), a single mother, with son Josh (right), cares for three other children. Their family lives below the poverty line. For Alison, the threat of becoming homeless at the age of 66, after ...

As a result, poverty has deepened across Australia, with 3.3 million people now living below the poverty line and 2 million experiencing food insecurity. Labor’s policies have further enriched ...

The poverty line is established to determine the minimum income a person or household requires to fulfill their basic needs. However, that amount, the income necessary to satisfy one’s basic ...

Australia made great strides in the 1990s when former prime minister Bob Hawke and his government committed to end child poverty. Child poverty wasn't eliminated but it was reduced by 30 per cent ...

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s poverty line income (PLI) has been revised from a monthly household income of RM980 to RM2,208, thus pushing up the country’s poverty rate from 0.4% in 2016 to 5.6% last ...

While more still needs to be done, efforts to combat severe disadvantage in Australia are working, as Alan Austin reports. OPTIMISTS BELIEVED the Albanese Government would need a decade to dent the ...