Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...

Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.

While the economy was a key topic of discussion for the two presidential candidates when they met on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday, the duel ended without explicit consideration of ...

In response to the U.S. Census Bureau’s release of new data on poverty in 2023, Rebecca Riddell, Oxfam America’s Economic and Racial Justice Senior Policy Lead, said: “The U.S. is home to the most ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—887 million out of 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution.

Stories move us. Numbers guide us. Together, they give us the power to act. Too often, conversations about poverty rely on stories or numbers but not both. We share a moving story of a child ...

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

The poverty rate in the Syracuse City School District fell more than 8 percentage points between 2023 and 2024, according to new data from the Census Bureau. A total of 28.97% of kids ages 5 to 17 in ...

Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is officially classified as poor.

Gov. Wes Moore signed data protection bills and legislation to eradicate poverty throughout Maryland into law on May 9. The Maryland Kids Code creates regulations designed to keep kids safe while ...