But the truth is that poverty in the US is much more persistent than it is in other high-income countries. In fact, a poor ...

The Trump proposal would abolish two programs that finance long-term housing — the Continuum of Care Program and Housing ...

‘Baby Bonds’ Could Help End Poverty in America A program under consideration by several states would pay thousands of dollars into trust accounts for children to help close the widening wealth ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Oxfam recognizes the importance of looking closely at poverty that often gets too little attention—such as that which exists even in wealthy nations like the US. Hoping to call attention to the harsh ...

The World Bank Group aims to end extreme poverty in the world by 2030, defined as decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $2.15 per day (2017 PPP prices) to no more than 3 percent of ...

America’s migrant farmworkers toil for sub-poverty wages under some of the most dangerous working conditions in the nation. Oxfam and FLOC conducted a joint study of the tobacco industry’s impact on ...

In Latin America and the Caribbean some 200 million ... ECLAC projects that by the end of 2022, poverty will stand at 32.1% of the population (a percentage equivalent to 201 million people ...

Your membership helps us create and campaign for lasting solutions to end the poverty crisis in the UK. Why become a Big Issue member? With poverty now at its highest point in the 21 st century, the ...

In its annual report Social Panorama of Latin America, ECLAC estimates ... while the overall poverty rate was at levels akin to those at the end of the 2000s. In the study, ECLAC indicates that ...