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

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

Net income is total income ... According to the Census Bureau's most recent data, the official poverty rate in 2023 was 11.1%. That translates to 36.8 million people in poverty.

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 ...

Meanwhile, 6.9 per cent of people in Manitoba lived in deep poverty, which is the highest rate among the provinces. In other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

THAT 14 million people in the UK, including more than four million children, are living in poverty is a “wearily familiar” ...