To identify the 25 cities hit hardest by extreme poverty, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed five-year data on concentrated poverty from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 American Community Survey. Metropolitan areas ...

To determine the states where public programs lift the most children out of poverty, 24/7 Wall St. calculated the change in the number of children living in poverty as measured by the supplemental ...

It is widely believed that China's socialist economy had relatively high rates of extreme poverty, while the capitalist reforms of the 1980s and 1990s delivered rapid progress, with extreme poverty ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty ...

Siti lives in South Philadelphia with her husband and two children. They have trouble keeping pace with inflation, she says. (Emma Lee/WHYY) This story is from Young, Unhoused and Unseen, a podcast ...

A new study exploring the effects of international student mobility has found that foreign-educated graduates reduce extreme poverty in low and middle-income countries. The paper, published in the ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A new study from NWEA, the not-for-profit provider of assessment solutions, reveals fresh insights into the relationship between school poverty and ...

Could reducing poverty go hand-in-hand with reducing the risk of developing dementia, the kind in which an elderly person shows signs of Alzheimer's disease but is cognitively healthy and autonomous?

Table 1. Prevalence of smoking by gender and marital status in routine and manual workers (%) Base smoking prevalence by gender (before marital status weighting) Smoking prevalence marital status ...

Ana Helfer’s marriage became a nightmare. Now, she and her three children are trying to heal. By Remy Tumin Careen Williams is raising a son with autism and pica. His meltdowns aggravated an old ...

When survivors of childhood sexual abuse tell their own stories in court or through government inquiries, they often describe the pervasive personal impact across many aspects of their life. In the ...