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 ...

A new study ranked the 50 largest U.S. metros for families, based on factors including household incomes, poverty rates and ...

A recent survey shows that extreme poverty in Morocco has decreased to around 3%, with the country’s poverty index dropping ...

Average per capita monthly income experienced a 10.7 percent increase over the year, reaching 2.1 million Uzbek soum per month, about US $161. World Bank experts have praised Uzbekistan’s poverty ...

British Columbia had the second-highest poverty rate at 12.2 per cent ... A person is in deep poverty if their income falls below 75 per cent of that threshold. One in five people who immigrated ...

Amid soaring income inequality, nearly 40% aged 65 or older live in poverty in Korea South Korea’s elderly poverty rate worsened for the second consecutive year, intensifying concerns as the country ...

Scotland has promised to scrap the two-child limit on benefits from 2026, which will boost the income of larger families on ...

A new report from Statistics Canada says Nova Scotia had the highest rate of poverty among the provinces in 2022, and Manitoba had the highest rate of deep poverty. The report released today says 12.5 ...

LPEM FEB UI researcher, Muhammad Hanri, emphasized that inequality remains a serious issue in the country. "Although the ...

Guimaras now has the second lowest poverty rate in Western Visayas, behind Aklan’s 4.6 percent, the PSA said in a report released on Jan 27. The 2023 Family Income and Expenditure Survey ...