More American cities—even those seen as affluent—are home to people living without running water as people are being ...

A study led by Mayo Clinic found a “widening gap between lifespan and healthspan" among 183 countries. The lead researcher ...

But both the high cost of living in the US and the growing gap between themselves and the middle classes can result in difficult lives for poor Americans. In addition, the median income of ...

All children are born ready to learn, but for 15 million children living in poverty in America, they enter school unready to succeed. Before even walking through the classroom door, American children ...

The silence of poverty is deafening. For the 15 million children living in poverty, playtime and early learning activities like reading, singing, arts & crafts and dress-up are not necessarily a way ...

Poverty, while declining in Latin America and the Caribbean so far this century, shows a new face, that of the looming ...

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) shows that 63,877 of the 485,265 residents on Staten Island, roughly 13.2%, are living in poverty. The 63,877 Staten ...

Thus, as a result of the prolonged health and social crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, the extreme poverty rate in Latin America has risen from 13.1% of the population in 2020 to 13.8% ...

In Latin America and the Caribbean some 200 million ... These figures mean that an additional 15 million people will be living in poverty in comparison with the situation before the pandemic ...