It is widely believed that China's socialist economy had relatively high rates of extreme poverty, while the capitalist reforms of the 1980s and 1990s delivered rapid progress, with extreme poverty ...

A new study exploring the effects of international student mobility has found that foreign-educated graduates reduce extreme poverty in low and middle-income countries. The paper, published in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A new study from NWEA, the not-for-profit provider of assessment solutions, reveals fresh insights into the relationship between school poverty and ...

Defined benefit pension income plays a critical role in reducing the risk of poverty and hardship among older Americans, according to a new study. The study found rates of poverty among older ...

Siti lives in South Philadelphia with her husband and two children. They have trouble keeping pace with inflation, she says. (Emma Lee/WHYY) This story is from Young, Unhoused and Unseen, a podcast ...

Disrupting poverty: How Barefoot College is empowering women through peer-to-peer learning and technology This article was taken from the April 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: Kakamega County contributes to the national poverty index 25 times more than what Lamu contributes, a new report has shown. The Economic Survey 2014 indicates that a county with a high ...

The U.S. Census estimates that 13.4 percent of Americans, about 42 million, lived below the poverty line in 2017. Of course, poverty is far from evenly distributed across the United States, and ...

The federal poverty line strictly looks at monetary income to determine who is impoverished. Next City's coverage of economic hardship, however, focuses on concrete ways to achieve greater economic ...

The fight against communism. A war on hate and poverty. A message of hope. Presidential inaugurations have had many themes. The Times first covered an inauguration in 1885, four years after the ...