New census data reveals that poverty is often a policy decision. Between 2019 and 2021, new federal policies pulled millions of people out of poverty across the West. Now that those pandemic-era ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

To continue growing the middle class, Congress and the Biden administration should learn from what worked in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated recession that led to ...

United Nation Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier de Schutter visited the UK in November and denounced the levels of poverty in the country maintained by the Conservative ...

Alliance councillor Stephen Donnelly described the statistics as “disturbing,” adding: “The situation around child poverty in ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...

Britain’s leading end of life charity, Marie Curie paints a terrible picture of over 100,000 people in the UK dying in poverty every year. The report, “Dying in Poverty 2024”, centres on data collated ...

A national strategy to tackle pensioner poverty is needed, according to MPs. The Government should also decide on – and ensure – a minimum level of retirement income, the Work and Pensions Committee ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, alongside the U.S. Census Bureau’s release of the 2022 poverty data, a new Center for American Progress article examines these new numbers and why they should be concerning ...