The statement comes days after the Trump administration restarted debt collection on defaulted student loans. About 5 million borrowers are in default, which means they're at risk of having their ...

and this stagnation impedes efforts to reduce poverty in Malawi. The budget deficit is expected to widen to 8.7% of GDP in 2025, driven by election year spending and the need to absorb some critical ...

Philadelphia's entrenched racial wealth gap did not occur by chance, but by design. Addressing it means asking: Who stewards ...

This is based on the World Bank’s international poverty line of $2.15 per day. In percentage terms, the national extreme poverty rate fell sharply from 16.2 percent in 2011-12 to just 2.3 percent in ...

The U.S. federal minimum wage of $7.25, unchanged since 2009 despite a 37% increase in the cost of living, has officially fallen below the poverty line, and the Trump administration has no plans to ...

Back to the World Bank. Its global poverty line is well known: $2.15 a day in PPP terms, based on the median national poverty line of 28 low-income countries. India has almost ended poverty based ...

Both the government and the principal opposition party, Congress, are leaving no chance to take the credit for a decline in extreme poverty in India over the past years. The Tribune, now published ...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) estimates that around 80,000 children – equivalent to all those aged 16 and under in Edinburgh – are now well below the poverty line. It found that young people in ...

This narrowed the rural-urban gap from 7.7% to 1.7%. Using the $3.65 per day LMIC poverty line, it observed that poverty declined from 61.8% to 28.1%, pulling another 378 million people out of ...