Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for ...

Even though the United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, millions of Americans are living on poverty level wages. Currently, the U.S. poverty rate stands at about 12.5%, but ...

Wayne County Executive Warren Evans announced Wednesday that a restriction-free, cash aid program for expectant mothers and ...

Given the role free trade has played in lifting millions out of poverty, to see the United States take a baseball bat to the ...

Despite having the world’s largest economy, the U.S. is home to millions of people living below the poverty line. While the national poverty rate of 12.5% is lower than it has been in recent ...

This contrasts with 654 million people who are classified as extremely poor according to the World Bank's US $2.15 per day International Poverty Line (IPL). Current poverty measures overlook a ...

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Each year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updates the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), a critical tool used to determine eligibility for Medicaid and other assi ...

A Poverty Zero law would require governments to set poverty reductions targets, and hold them legally accountable to those commitments. Ask your MP to work with us to end extreme poverty You can ...

In the late 1990s the U.S. began exporting thousands of convicts back to Central America each year. In the vacuum of weak governance and poverty in their home country, gang members reproduced ...