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

The charity's Dying in Poverty 2025 report estimates 594 people who died in Wigan last year spent their final months living ...

Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

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

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.

It's called the "graduation" approach — both financial and moral support to help people move from extreme poverty to ...

A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

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

For years, state leaders have treated tax cuts as a shortcut to prosperity — but this policy isn’t working and it's leaving people behind ...

We are at a critical juncture today in the fight against poverty. Despite decades of hard-won development progress, a world free of poverty remains out of sight. Ten years ago, the outlook appeared ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...

Using nationally representative household consumption surveys from 23 countries that together account for 50% of the world’s poor, we estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% (from a baseline of ...