The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

At food banks throughout the country, deliveries of millions of dollars’ worth of food were abruptly stopped last week by the ...

In the absence of new official poverty lines, the updated official Tendulkar Committee poverty lines for 2022–23 are provided, along with alternate estimates of poverty based on updated Rangarajan ...

One of President Donald Trump’s latest executive order dismantles the only federal agency focused on ending and preventing ...

Expanding child tax credit would cut child poverty rate in half statewide and have an enormous impact on the Syracuse community, writes 48th District state senator.