While the number of people living in extreme poverty has decreased in recent years, there is still a long road ahead. Here are five essential facts everyone should know to better understand the ...

"Nobody hears the poor. It is the rich who are being heard."—a discussion group of poor men and women, Egypt "Poverty is humiliation, the sense of being dependent and of being forced to accept ...

single-year income and poverty statistics for all 3,141 counties and 13,213 school districts nationally. The SAIPE tables provide statistics on the number of people in poverty, the number of ...

The quarterly newsletter Inequality in Focus continues to explore aspects of inequality, this time delving into how poverty can limit aspirations and exploring the gap between facts and perceptions of ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty The latest official statistics show 358,370 households contacted their local authority for support after being threatened with homelessness or ...

Surprised, you gather your thoughts and request that your own experts carefully review their statistics. Yet they, too, review the empirical evidence and confirm that poverty is more pervasive than ...

The authors of the Brookings report rely on discredited tropes about poverty and crime and present a misleading portrait of pandemic-era policing data. Their readers should demand a more honest ...

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 ...

A new report from Community Development Halton (CDH) is calling for urgent ‘targeted’ interventions to address the surge in child poverty rates across the region, with more than 17,000 children living ...