Deregulation, defunding of welfare programs, higher taxes on the poor, and weak labor laws lead to high poverty in the United ...

The survey— conducted by Hart Research Associates—revealed stark and sometimes unexpected results, and raised anew questions about poverty and inequality in one of the wealthiest countries in the ...

And approximately half (49.2%) of all American children between the ages of 1 and 20 will at some point reside in a household that receives food stamps. The poverty rate in the City of Rockford is ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Areeba Haider is a research associate for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress. The findings in this column are based on CAP’s analysis of 2020 Current ...

In a Feb. 27 White House address, Biden said the child tax credit he’d expanded through the American Rescue Plan delivered big results for Black Americans. "We cut Black child poverty in half in ...

Hats off to our public transit system and those who make it work, and hats off to those who point us in the right direction to mitigate the deadly influence of poverty. Tom Eggebeen, Pasadena To ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 28 developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and ...

In Latin America and the Caribbean some 200 million people live in poverty, with 82 million in extreme poverty, points out a report from the UN Economic Commission for the region, ECLAC.