Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...
Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...
Scott Compton, senior policy advisor at Action for Children, writes about why the Labour government's child poverty strategy ...
A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.
The land of the free is suffering from a "self-inflicted" injustice when it comes to poverty, experts say, as the rich are getting richer while thousands living without sufficient means die every year ...
Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...
Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) heads to a vote in the Senate at the US Capitol. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of ...
Ladywell, in Birmingham, has the highest levels, with 62% of children living in relative poverty. In some areas of Leeds, ...
Within the United States, education is commonly regarded as an equalizer to opportunity and upward mobility. In reality, there are countless impediments in the system that exclude low-income children ...
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A new study finds that young adults squeezed by rent and cramped space reported higher activity levels, but also ...