Behind the headlines, and largely unreported, the basic measures of human well-being have continued to improve in recent ...

The sacking of the office could lead to cuts in assistance to low-income families next year unless the Trump administration ...

The White House's budget proposes eliminating Head Start, an early childhood education program that provides services to ...

We use the TANF-to-poverty ratio (TPR) to examine changes over time in access to TANF by families experiencing poverty. We ...

Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for ...

The GOP-controlled Congress is weighing cuts to Medicaid, the government health program that covers millions of Americans — ...

Men who claimed to be in "immense poverty" were found with £675,000-worth of cocaine when they were stopped by Border Force ...

Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags. The reliance on outdated technology and piecemeal systems challenge staffs and erode ...

The number of children living in poverty in Leicester is on the increase. More than one in three children in the city are living in poverty, according to new statistics from the Department for ...

People lie on a mattress outside a closed store in Buenos Aires, Argentina, early Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) ...

The proportion of the population living in poverty fell to 38.1 percent between June and December, down 14.8 points from the first half of 2024, the Indec statistics agency announced. The figures ...

The global goal of eradicating extreme poverty, defined as living on $2.15 per person per day, by 2030 remains a formidable challenge, increasingly threatened by the growing impacts of climate change ...