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

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 ...

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

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

A report from the Center for an Urban Future shows that poverty rates for New Yorkers ages 65 and older have reached 50% in ...

The Uzbek government reports continuing progress in reducing poverty in the country. But the official baseline for calculating the poverty line may be contributing to an undercount. The Ministry of ...

National test scores painted a bleak picture of academic recovery for both Texas and the U.S. following the COVID-19 pandemic ...

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 ...