Poverty is on the rise, but only among seniors, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual poverty report. Based on the official measure, which is a simple calculation based on pretax cash income ...

Thousands of people have marched through central Edinburgh calling for more action to tackle poverty in Scotland. The Scotland Demands Better demonstration was organised by trade unions and charities ...

In 2020, more than 37 million Americans lived in poverty according to new data from the U.S Census Bureau. That's 3.3 million more than in 2019. But this number doesn't include those who are above the ...

Tanya Ovenden-Hope said Cornwall needed more resources targeted to areas of need The way the government measures deprivation fails to take into account the challenges faced in rural areas like ...

Kerala Minister M B Rajesh defends the state’s upcoming declaration as India’s first ‘extreme poverty-free’ state, calling it ...

To continue growing the middle class, Congress and the Biden administration should learn from what worked in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated recession that led to ...

Union Minister Suresh Gopi warns Kerala against misusing extreme poverty statistics for political gain, calling it a betrayal ...

UN chief says 700 million people live in extreme poverty as Qatar calls for doubling efforts to support Palestinians.

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social scientists ...