Social Indicators Research, Vol. 148, No. 1 (February 2020), pp. 105-126 (22 pages) The first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) tasks countries with eradicating poverty in all its dimensions ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

A new report from the National Academy of Sciences seeks to redefine poverty. The NAS presents the effort as a matter of science: “An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how ...

Could a new approach to defining persistent poverty actually hurt rural communities? A rural American small town with a two-lane paved road and a church steeple. One of the federal government’s key ...

Over the past four years, various government departments worked together to provide needy families with food, shelter, ...

When we talk about poverty- you always think about somebody else right? Poor?...Me?...Not me. Well, a report released today says when you look at poverty in terms of ...

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Single mothers raising children under the age of 18 make up more than a third of the families meeting the federal poverty definition in North Carolina. That’s $20,030 a year, before taxes, for a ...