That’s the dire conclusion of a recent post by Max Roser, founder of the website Our World in Data. While Roser projects that the number of people in extreme poverty will decline by about 40 million ...

Mexico leads Latin America in poverty reduction, owing primarily to recent minimum wage increases, according to a United Nations report.

Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

Ending child poverty is within reach, UNICEF argues, because solutions exist. Meet some of the children and families who are ...

Hurricane Melissa’s impact on eastern Cuba has exposed the country’s extreme poverty and the state of abandonment in remote ...

Using deep beat knowledge, John Leicester and Samuel Petrequin identified a revealing trend when new French statistics showed ...

A project which provides mattresses and beds to people in need has continued to see to see high demand, especially for ...

In Minneapolis, for example, researchers said a new program that cost less than $30 million per year would cut the city’s poverty levels by half when accounting for existing state and federal credits.

The most notable call made this weekend by a market commentator came not on the state of the stock market, but on the state ...

For a growing share of American families, the official poverty line bears little resemblance to life's actual price tag. A ...

These questions inspired Kanig to start the Trenton-based Latino arts and culture nonprofit, Casa Cultura, which recently ...