The Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) at Utah State University has released the third of six white papers sharing the ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to ...

How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy, spoke at Virginia Wesleyan University for Black ...

A report from the Center for an Urban Future shows that poverty rates for New Yorkers ages 65 and older have reached 50% in ...

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

Dominating the book is an image of institutional space, beige, concrete, and lightless: the warehouse, the hospital, the ...

Ryan read an essay that Clyburn wrote on the program and ... specifically using the 10-20-30 program to fight rural persistent poverty. When rural America thrives, the entire country gains ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The fight against poverty has been long-drawn. The highest poverty rate came after the martial law regime. The country’s poverty index was at its worst at 44.2 percent in 1985 in a population of ...

‘Cutting benefits spend means taking away the support disabled people need to live, which will push many more disabled people into poverty.’ Mikey Erhardt, a campaigner at Disability Rights ...

Poverty guidelines for Alaska and Hawaii are ... to use primary sources to support their work. These include white papers, government data, original reporting, and interviews with industry experts.