In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...

Using detailed surveys and machine learning computation, new research co-authored at UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action finds that eradicating extreme poverty would be surprisingly ...

Sometimes, numbers don't tell the whole story. At times, they even tell the wrong story. Take Long Island's poverty rate, which in 2022 stood at 5.9%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

If the guys from Men in Black wiped your memory clean with a neuralyzer and erased the years 2020 and 2021 (which wouldn’t be such a bad idea), you would have greeted yesterday’s release of the Census ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa --- Roughly 70,000 fewer Iowans are categorized as living in poverty between 2009 and 2011 under an alternative method the federal government is using to measure economic well-being.

Leading American poverty researcher Mark Robert Rank joins the Utterly Moderate Podcast to discuss his Poverty Risk Calculator and the risk Americans face of experiencing poverty throughout their ...