IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the country’s 240 million people live below or around the poverty line, ...

Jeanne Guemmer of Shakopee decided between canned chicken and tuna on a pale, gray November afternoon. She stopped by the CAP Agency food shelf in Shakopee to pick up a week’s worth of groceries in ...

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) heads to a vote in the Senate at the US Capitol. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of ...

Why is there so much poverty in America? Matthew Desmond, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist, answers that complicated question in his latest book “Poverty, By America.” He argues that the United ...

On Tuesday the Census Bureau is scheduled to release income and poverty statistics for 2022. It’s safe to say that the report will be hard to interpret. Last year, the two poverty measures released by ...

In regard to George Melloan's excellent reminder that calamity-mongers are largely wrong ("Forget the Nightly News; Life Is Getting Better," Global View, Aug. 17): Apparently it is more politically ...

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

Chances are, most people you talk to would likely agree that it’s important to end poverty. But, if you were to ask all those people to explain poverty, chances are you would get a lot of different ...

Mathematicians have used machine learning to develop a new model for measuring poverty in different countries that junks old notions of a fixed 'poverty line'. The study by academics at Aston ...

The Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society (AIS) has charged religious leaders to understand and imbibe the concept and culture of philanthropy, as part of measures to tackle poverty in the country.The ...