New research from the Urban Institute credits stimulus checks, federal unemployment benefits, and bigger food stamps with a sizable drop in poverty.

Two new documentaries take a hard look at the struggles of low-income and middle class families to access the basics—like food, housing, healthcare and education. By signing up, you confirm that you ...

In a prior blog post, we reviewed key issues needed to understand the overall picture in this week’s Census poverty report. Next, we turn to the important subject of child poverty. Whenever the Census ...

Schematic Chart for Institutional Arrangement for Poverty Monitoring and Evaluation ...

In discussions about poverty in America, concern is frequently expressed regarding working poor families with children. Many perceive the working poor as families that work full-time throughout the ...

The big picture from the First Quarter 2024 Social Weather Stations (SWS) reports on poverty and hunger is that both are struggling to recover to the pre-pandemic levels of 2019. For reference, the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse’s children struggle with some of the worst poverty in the entire country and have done so for years, but new census data released in March shows just how dire the situation ...

The 1960s War on poverty was intended to eliminate child poverty nationwide through a variety of income transfers and human development programs. However, during the first three decades of the War on ...

Table 2.3: Incidence of overall poverty and of extreme poverty and percentage change between 1996 and 1998 for different socio-economic strata Table 2.4: Incidence of poverty in male headed and female ...

The UK had the worst rise in child poverty between 2012 and 2019 out of 39 of the world’s richest countries. Under the Tories, the country has seen an almost 20% increase in its child income poverty ...