This paper offers four findings. First, rural poverty saw a modest decline despite the onset of COVID-19 in 2019–20 and fell as sharply in 2020–21 as it had in 2018–19. Second, urban poverty rose ...

Earlier this week, I spoke with a group of senior officials at the Department of Health and Human Services about strategies to reduce poverty in the United States. The conversation centered on ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Poverty is strongly associated with increased loneliness, which in turn correlates with higher levels of pain, fatigue, and low mood. These symptoms are more ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in extreme poverty (that is, on less than US$2.15 a day). Nearly 67% of these ...

Government makes most things worse. President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a war on poverty; President Richard Nixon a war on drugs. Both had good intentions, but their "wars" do more harm than good.

The World Bank reports India lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, reducing it to 2.3%. Using a $3.65/day poverty line, 378 million were lifted out of poverty.

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Mount Vernon (14%), Yonkers (13%), and New Rochelle (11%) have some of the highest poverty rates in the county. Noun Project/ Nithinan Tatah The poverty threshold, a dollar amount that defines the ...

High poverty rates, rising food prices, and food insecurity have plagued the U.S. for decades. A 2023 USDA Food Security Report found that food insecurity exists in about 18% of homes with children.

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations. Ever since Adam Smith wrote ...

JAN TEORELL: What they have demonstrated is that inclusive institutions are good for growth and long-run prosperity, whereas extractive institutions lead to poverty. HORSLEY: While that history is ...

The number of children in poverty rose by 979,000 from 2022 to 2023, Census Bureau data shows. The rise in child poverty comes as families still grapple with life without an enhanced child tax credit.