Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

Being poor is expensive. You don’t need to be told that, especially if you’re always living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by; you’ve noticed. Still, when you’re just trying to get ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...

The latest example of poverty measurement problems is on display in a new report by the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Similar to the supplemental ...

In recent years the biggest example of Fake News reporting on Fake Poverty may be the claim, begun during the Obama administration, that the expansion of Food Stamps use is a good indicator of how ...

With more than 46 million Americans living below the poverty line, including 16 million children, our goal is to put a human face on a problem that often can seem overwhelming. We also plan to cover ...

Are you familiar with escape rooms? The only way you can escape is to solve a complicated problem. But what happens if you fail to escape the room on time? Having lost, you are then “imprisoned” in ...

One of out of every three Lebanese have fallen into poverty in 2022 BEIRUT, May 23, 2024 — Poverty in Lebanon has more than tripled over the past decade reaching 44% of the total population, according ...

Sociology, Vol. 46, No. 5, Special Issue: The Sociology of Human Rights (OCTOBER 2012), pp. 906-920 (15 pages) There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though ...

Some 11.9 million children in America lived in poverty last year. That comes out to be about one in every six children. Children have no choice or ability to change the income or living situation of ...

You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes. “ Social entrepreneurship has proven to provide impactful innovations for poverty alleviation ...