New report from respected poverty watchdog, which measures figure on a "multidimensional" basis rather than purely cash, ...

A stronger US economy lifted American household incomes in 2016 and drove the poverty rate down to the level seen before the financial crisis. The median household income increased by 3.2% to US$ ...

UNICEF announced in 2013 that the United States has the second-highest child poverty rate in the developed world. The United Nations dispatched a special team to analyze the “extreme poverty and ...

This story was updated on Feb. 20. The government’s fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in Canada by up to 40%. In a new report, ...

The local poverty rate was nearly double the national average, while the rate of child poverty reached a record high. The results of the annual poverty tracker, which estimated the average family ...