Social Security payments lift an estimated 23.5 million people above the poverty line, a new report has found.

Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.

An international team of researchers from George Mason University, Harvard University, and the University of Tokyo have used artificial intelligence to map the global underground market for illegal ...

In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...

EQT Chief Executive Toby Rice is starting a nonprofit to tackle a lack of access to modern energy infrastructure in poor ...

Advocates for children warn these statistics are about real lives – families regularly having to choose between paying rent ...

Around 1. 9 million people with a higher education qualification in Germany were at risk of poverty in 2025, around 350,000 more than in 2022, according to data from the Federal Statistical Office ...

Grassroots groups like Legacy of Hope Foundation say funding is critical to keep serving families while expanding programs aimed at long-term self-sufficiency.

The child poverty rate in California nearly tripled from 2021 to 2024 — 7.5% to 18.6% — and is now the fourth highest in the country, according to new KIDS COUNT data from the Annie E. Casey ...