Illegal immigration feeds a 'low-wage/high welfare economy' that pushes immigrants toward poverty and California toward ...

Poverty might mean different things in different parts of the world and to different ... Economic factors. Poverty remains a serious problem in the United States despite nine years of economic ...

Argentina’s economy is rebounding fast. Inflation has plummeted, growth is back, and poverty is falling. Javier Milei’s shock ...

According to this measurement, there were 39.7 million Americans living in poverty last year. The official poverty rate in 2017 stood at 12.3 percent, a slight improvement from the 2016 rate of 12 ...

The share of Americans living in poverty fell to 10.5 percent in 2019, the Census Bureau reported, down 1.3 percentage points from 2018. That rate is the lowest since estimates were first ...

The Freedom From Poverty Bill aims to transform South Africa's empowerment landscape by shifting from race-based to ...

If the conflict endures, the value of Sudan’s economy will contract by up to 42% – with 7 million more people falling into ...

The War on Poverty has not failed us, but our economy has. Our economy and social fabric have changed significantly in the past 50 years. Demographic shifts, rising income inequality, ...

Ann Huff Stevens is the director of the Center for Poverty Research and a professor of economics. She is a labor economist and specializes in transitions into and out of poverty, the relationship ...

In depth look at the status of government assistance related to health care, infrastructure, income, housing and nutrition ...

The labor and social security minister drew public outrage when she said “there are no beggars” in Cuba, where many people ...

In other words, the road out of economic poverty is paved by energy — a lot of energy. The energy needed cannot just come from electricity created by solar panels and wind turbines.