The United States spends $1 trillion on welfare and medicaid, which can be reduced while still increasing welfare benefits.

While American society is especially good among wealthy countries at producing poverty, it is especially bad at making the ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to afford their basic needs. But this is a ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, ...

The issue of the creation of more states in Nigeria is a touchy one. Arguing against it is at one’s peril. Until every tribe in Nigeria has its own state, the agitation for state creation will not sto ...

One faith-based aid group that appears to be surviving Mr. Trump’s drastic cuts is Samaritan’s Purse, the behemoth ...

In "Poverty, Inc." Ghanian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse explains that most serious impediment to economic ...

Trump's dismantling of USAID puts billions in foreign aid at risk—here are five key things to know about its impact and ...

By Yasmin Tarver In his farewell address, President Joe Biden delivered a stark warning about the dangerous power of the ...

As President Donald Trump attempts to eliminate any consideration of race, a new federal effort is underway to recognize the ...

The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from ...

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 ...