Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

McDowell County residents say it’s up to them to forge a brighter future after decades of federal projects haven’t eased ...

The Mexican government on Friday claimed that for the first time in history more  Mexicans are categorized as middle class ...

New research from the Urban Institute credits stimulus checks, federal unemployment benefits, and bigger food stamps with a sizable drop in poverty.

Camden families are earning 50% more than they did in prior years, yet their median income remains at just $37,045 compared ...

It would take $318 billion per year, or 0.3% of the world's economic output, to end most extreme poverty worldwide, according to newly published research.

Nine organizations will receive $40,000 each through the New Human Services Partnership between the county and Ann Arbor.

It's called the "graduation" approach — both financial and moral support to help people move from extreme poverty to self-sufficiency. But in this innovative Uganda project, something isn't clicking.

Margaret grew up in the Patterson Way Apartments, a notorious drug-infested public housing development in South Boston. By the time she was 16, both her mother and her father had died, and her ...

An new article published in Social Work in Mental Health outlines the persistent systemic and structural social injustices ...

In his January 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” In the 50 years since ...

A charity has warned scrapping the two-child benefit limit is 'not enough' to meet Scotland’s child poverty targets ahead of the Holyrood ...