Racial inequality in terms of the official poverty rate is also particularly acute for women of color. As National Women’s Law Center research shows, while in 2019 the U.S. poverty rate for white men ...

The recent demise of actor Farooq Sheikh prompts me to share with you a dialogue from the film Saath Saath which I must have repeated a zillion times in my talks Farooq Sheikh was the main protagonist ...

Event-study and instrumental variable models reveal that a 10 percent increase in per-pupil spending each year for all twelve years of public school leads to 0.27 more completed years of education, ...

Maui Economic Opportunity has been gathering community’s input on the “causes that could lead to poverty” in Maui County and encourages more submissions before the survey’s deadline of ...

Measuring Poverty. The World Bank’s mission is to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. To effectively monitor progress toward this goal, it is critical to measure ...

This initiative, the Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic, encompasses 18 countries, ranging from fragile and conflict-affected states to middle-income countries. Over the ...

In a recent survey of 135 anonymous players across 21 teams by The Athletic, Skubal’s game received plenty of praise. “He’s nasty for everybody,” one player said of the lefty.

This week, the worldwide 12-step group Alcoholics Anonymous celebrates its 90th anniversary. Pippa Hudson interviews Frank, an AA member. Sara-Jayne Makwala King 11 June 2025 | 6:53 ...

But by and large, the alt-right’s largest audience came from anonymous youths who were exposed to the movement’s ideas through online message boards like 4chan and 8chan’s /pol/ and internet platforms ...

India’s extreme poverty declined below 5 percent in 2024 to 4.6 percent from 5.3 percent estimated by the World Bank in 2023, SBI Research said in a note on June 10.

But the Trussell Trust’s figures focus not just on poverty thresholds, but the kind of hardship that leaves people turning to food banks and emergency support to get by. The package aims to reduce the ...