The economic conditions that have tightened household budgets for many Americans have hit older adults especially hard, with the number of people in that age category who are living in poverty in New ...

in an interview with USA TODAY. "Unaffordable housing, stagnant wages and a cost-of-living crisis," the paper highlights, "pushed more households into situations of plumbing poverty as people end ...

July 31, 2024 That poverty in the United States is so multifaceted ... one study found that the proportion of Americans living in poverty dropped from more than 60% in 1933 to less than 40% ...

Today, almost 700 million people (8.5 percent of the global population) live in extreme poverty - on less than $2.15 per day. Progress has stalled amid low growth, setbacks due to COVID-19, and ...

As housing becomes increasingly costly, over 1 million Americans live without running water, even in affluent cities, new research shows.

Now, the federal poverty line is the same no matter where you live. Rep. Mikie Sherrill introduced a bill to require regional ...

Delaware Senator Elizabeth "Tizzy" Lockman convenes officials and experts for the first of two-phase summit to address ...

Disrupting the cycle of poverty isn’t about focusing on one person in the family. It’s about centering the entire family and building a rich, supportive, and deeply responsive community that can hold ...

As the nation went to the polls last year for a General Election, one in five people in the UK were living in poverty, ...

One in six pensioners is living in poverty, a think tank has said. Some 16% of all pensioners, or 1.9 million, are in poverty. Sasjkia Otto, of the Fabian Society think tank which did the research ...