But the truth is that poverty in the US is much more persistent than it is in other high-income countries. In fact, a poor American kid is much less likely to escape poverty in adulthood than a ...

Struggling financially isn't about a lack of knowledge but about surviving within a difficult system. Lil' Lo criticized the tendency to blame individuals for their poverty, noting it perpetuates ...

Deregulation, defunding of welfare programs, higher taxes on the poor, and weak labor laws lead to high poverty in the United ...

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama committed the United States to achieving newly adopted U.N. global goals by 2030.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the typical American household earned about ... the share of residents living below the poverty line exceeds the comparable statewide poverty rate — and ...

Approximately 700 million people live in extreme poverty on less than $2.15 a day, and nearly half of the world lives on less than $6.85 daily, a figure unchanged since 1990. High inequality, ...

Panama's government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S. The migrants fled conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in ...

To finally bring an end to the devastating toll we all bear due to the ongoing childhood poverty crisis, a groundbreaking initiative in Connecticut offers a blueprint for transformative change.

According to the city of St. Louis research, Black residents are more than three times more likely than white residents to live in areas of concentrated poverty. Photo courtesy of Urban League The ...