The lead on The Washington Post story was an eye-opener: “For the first-time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis ...

Merriam-Webster defines poverty as ‘the state of being poor.’ While this definition seems simple enough, defining poverty as it applies to our world in 2015 is not quite so cut and dry.

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 ...

The idea that half of all American children are in poverty or near being in poverty is not one that we'd really be comfortable entertaining. It would show that our society isn't taking care of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “poverty issue” opens a vast highway system of social and economic observations headed in every direction. Some say poverty is a national disgrace. Some say it’s the poor people’s own fault. Some ...

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

For two decades, the Census Bureau has reported almost yearly that more than 35 million Americans live in "poverty." Last fall, census officials grabbed headlines by saying 43.5 million persons were ...

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 ...

Poverty is getting a new international definition. Folk with incomes less than $1.90 per day will reportedly now be classed as in poverty; formerly the threshold was $1.25 per day. The UK's standard ...

A new definition of fuel poverty is needed to ensure help is targeted at those most in need, according to expert review groups. It is one of 100 recommendations being considered by the Scottish ...