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 ...

The many short-term solutions to addressing the mental health crisis in the United States are not enough, and it is imperative to explore long-term solutions that address this problem at the root.

In fact, our state’s Childcare Assistance program is very likely one of the factors for why child poverty is so vastly improved in a measurement recently released by the Census Bureau.

The research also found that people of color were disproportionally affected by a lack of household water, a situation defined by the authors as "plumbing poverty," in 12 of the 15 largest cities.

Tackling poverty is often difficult and expensive, which may explain Labour’s caution. What hope it can offer Britain’s poorest comes more in the promise of general economic growth than in ...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked educators, policymakers and advocates to share what they deem the most important priorities for the upcoming 2025 General Assembly. Their answers are included in ...

The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in UK absolute poverty in 30 years, new figures show. Steep prices rises, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, meant hundreds of thousands ...

$2.15 per person per day for extreme poverty and $6.85 per person per day for general poverty. In 2023, the proportion of the population living in extreme poverty fell to 4.4 percent, down from 6. ...