Statista21d
Poverty and income in the United States - statistics & facts
A comparison of poverty rates across OECD countries gives some indication as to a possible cause of inequality. Countries such as the United States, Spain, Costa Rica, and Romania have high rates ...
National Catholic Reporter29d
Sociologist: Ending US poverty is doable but requires 'each of us' to 'become poverty abolitionists'
about the high cost of being poor in the United States. In September 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau reported, "In 2023, the official poverty rate fell 0.4 percentage points to 11.1 percent.
Latin America poverty hits 33-year low but inequality prevails, UN report says
Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in a report on Tuesday, ...
AgNet West5d
U.S. Census Bureau Finds Child Supplemental Poverty Rates Lower Than Official Rates in Most States
The U.S. Census Bureau’s latest report, Poverty in the United States: 2023, highlights .....child Supplemental Poverty Measure rate was ...
AOL3d
An Unpleasant Surprise Awaits Some Social Security Beneficiaries in the New Year
Based on an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, America's leading retirement program has reduced the ...
Multi-country study finds significant differences in how poverty is passed from parents to children
Researchers from Stockholm University, Bocconi University, and the Rockwool Foundation have studied poverty's lasting impact ...
Center for American Progress12d
Child Care Expenses Push an Estimated 134,000 Families Into Poverty Each Year
Robust public investments can lift the weight of the child care affordability crisis off the safety net’s shoulders.
The 74 on MSN1mon
Kids in Poverty Often Lag in Reading. In St. Louis, They’re Even Further Behind
In general, lower-poverty districts have higher literacy rates, but it’s not a foregone conclusion. In fact, several of the ...
manilatimes1mon
Slashing the poverty rate
and there is optimism that the poverty rate will be down to a single digit by the time President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. leaves office in 2028. Poverty incidence refers to the proportion of households ...
Estonian World6d
Poverty rate in Estonia down, perceived deprivation up
According to Statistics Estonia, 20.2% of Estonia’s population lived at risk of poverty and 2.7% in absolute poverty in 2023; ...
Phys.org26d
Research finds 1.1 billion people in multidimensional poverty, with nearly a half-billion in conflict settings
has found that poverty rates in conflict-affected nations are almost three times higher than in countries free from conflict. A staggering 455 million of the world's poor live in countries exposed ...
The Repository26d
'No demographic is immune': Poverty rate for Ohio children is reaching startling numbers
Ohio’s poverty rate was 13.4% in 2022 and the state’s child poverty rate was 17.7%, according to the latest report from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies. While the state’s ...