The world’s nations are gathering in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor ...

The world’s nations are gathering in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor ...

"$30,000 a year is poverty in America but in China, I'm living large," she says.

A recent study by the Appalachian Regional Commission is comparing rural Appalachia to the rest of rural America.

US skips global UN meeting in Spain aimed at raising trillions to combat poverty Many countries face escalating debt burdens, ...

2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book shows Texas has made progress in reducing child poverty but the state still ranks 44th in child well-being nationally.

That was the dream. Today there is widespread skepticism among the public that the American Dream — however they personally define it — is still possible.

This is more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over at the World Bank’s highest poverty line of $8.30 a day. The wealth of just 3,000 billionaires has surged $6.5 trillion in real terms ...

The poverty rate in the United States increased last year, the first increase in 13 years, according to the Census Bureau.

Last week, a McClatchy newspapers analysis of the 2005 census figures, the latest available, found that nearly 16 million Americans are living in deep or severe poverty. The analysis also found that ...