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This metric relies on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which determines poverty rates by calculating the share of people in a state whose family or individual income falls below poverty thresholds.

In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly paid workers?

A World Bank and CEDLAS report highlights that poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean dropped to its lowest level in 2023 ...

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

But how does one measure the combined extent of these impacts? This chapter explores multidimensional measurements of poverty with the latest available data, and shows that recent setbacks, if left ...

A World Bank study reveals that 184 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean are vulnerable to poverty, with climate ...

highlights what she sees as the problem of elderly poverty in the United States: “Already, America’s elderly suffer a far higher rate of poverty – defined as half the median income or lower ...

This story first appeared in New York Focus, a non-profit news publication investigating New York state politics. Sign up for their stories at nysfocus.com/newsletter. As Governor Kathy Hochul and ...

This means that the number of people living in extreme poverty went from ... social protection,” states the annual report Social Panorama of Latin America 2021, launched at a virtual press ...