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

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

Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...

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 ...

Official figures going back to 2018 are set to take billions in under-reported benefits income into account.

Non-cash benefits bring many Americans above the poverty line — and our poverty statistics should reflect that.

Hundreds of thousands fewer children will get education, health and care plans (EHCPs) as a result of changes to the special ...

Sewage released into our rivers by water companies is a scandal with life and death consequences. Dirty Business shows how it ...

In-work poverty has replaced unemployment at the heart of Britain’s “economic malaise,” the report said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Labour’s pledge to scrap the controversial two-child benefit cap is a step closer to law after draft-legislation to axe the ...

VANCOUVER — Months before the international spotlight lands on Vancouver as one of the host cities for the soccer World Cup, Jason Grund says he is already hearing concerns from people living in the ...

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 ...