The percentage of people living in extreme poverty ... rate below the global average of 2 percent. Another worry is that data needed to assess shared prosperity is weakest in the very countries that ...

Poverty rates have also plunged during that time, dropping from 13.3% to around 3.5% after adjusting for inflation. But the decrease is due to the corresponding expansion of government benefits ...

America’s poverty rate is now at its highest level in two generations ... whether they occur in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, or the United States,” continued Offenheiser. “We need a lively national ...

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As I explained in recent testimony before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, the old-age poverty rate in the US is 23%, compared to about 15% in the United Kingdom ...