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

Recipients saw lasting benefits, a study finds. July 31, 2024 That poverty in the United States is so multifaceted, whether urban or rural, can make it seem daunting to tackle. But some of the New ...

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 ...

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

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

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

you can still have a path to financial stability in the United States as long as you work hard. But the truth is that poverty in the US is much more persistent than it is in other high-income ...

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 ...

Are you in the middle class? The salary range needed for keeping up with the Joneses depends on how many people live in your home.