The number of people living in poverty in New York city has grown to the highest level in seven years, a study by the nonprofit Robin Hood found​.

Republican proposals that Congress could act on this year, including spending cuts House Republicans are reportedly ...

The poverty levels among seniors on Long Island were representative across the state, said Beth Finkel, AARP state director for New York. She said one in five New Yorkers is 65 or older, and the ...

At least 92% of South Sudan’s estimated 11 million people lived below the extreme poverty line in 2024, according to a new ...

The study found that 58 percent of New Yorkers, or more than 4.8 million people, were in families with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty line — about $94,000 for a couple with two ...

The only way to end the increasingly bleak outlook on poverty is actually to fix the housing crisis and not just talk about ...

Haryana's poverty rate has surged six-fold to 51.83 lakh families (over 2 crore people) in the past five years, as per official data.

Britain’s leading end of life charity, Marie Curie paints a terrible picture of over 100,000 people in the UK dying in poverty every year. The report, “Dying in Poverty 2024”, centres on ...

By combining the precision of asset-based poverty indexes with the practicality of consumption-based poverty lines, Cornell researchers have piloted a new machine-learning model to identify areas of ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...