This cycle of economic disadvantage weighs heavily not only on children and families experiencing poverty but also the nation, reducing overall economic output and placing increased burden on the ...

Parents, and the home environments they create, can also have an important influence on a child's development; in fact, a child's home environment can affect the ways that certain genetic traits ...

In 2017, the supplemental poverty measure rate was 13.9%. The two-adult-two-child poverty threshold ... number than the federal poverty thresholds. Understanding whether you fall within a certain ...

Deprivations in nonmonetary dimensions like access to schooling and basic infrastructure, compound poverty and perpetuate cycles of inequality ... consumption or income, educational attainment, ...

Only Uganda has had a higher annual poverty reduction during the same time period. Ethiopia is one of the most equal countries in the world and low levels of inequality have ... gender parity in ...