Millions of jobs have been created in the US economy, but many Americans still live in poverty. Who are they? For nearly six years, the US economy has been generating huge numbers of jobs ...

More questionable is that about 11.1 percent of Americans live in poverty despite this national wealth. However, the acceptance that poverty for some is an unfortunate consequence of free markets ...

Merriss’ plight illustrates the harsh economic realities of millions of Americans who identify as ... higher rates of poverty ...

Poverty in the U.S. The number of Americans struggling to get by has increased in the past few years. The U.S. Census Bureau produces annual poverty estimates to measure the economic well-being of ...

Americans with the lowest levels of income — those experiencing material poverty — also tend to be the most socially poor. As income increases, so too does social wellbeing, but only to a ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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?

Startling photos depicting childhood, community and poverty in Greater Manchester's slums have been unearthed. The 1960s and 70s scenes were captured by photographer Shirley Baker, one of one of ...

Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu, a professor at MIT in the United States and the author of several best-sellers including "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty," is ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 28 developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and ...

which aims to alleviate child poverty by giving cash payments to pregnant women and their babies. There’s a gap between how much Americans say they care about kids and what they’re willing to ...