Over the last 50 years, the proportion of Americans living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged. In 2023, 11 percent ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

For years, state leaders have treated tax cuts as a shortcut to prosperity — but this policy isn’t working and it's leaving ...

Within the United States, education is commonly regarded as an equalizer to opportunity and upward mobility. In reality, there are countless impediments in the system that exclude low-income children ...

The land of the free is suffering from a "self-inflicted" injustice when it comes to poverty, experts say, as the rich are getting richer while thousands living without sufficient means die every year ...

Nigeria currently has a population of 237 million people and over 133 million Nigerians are living in this kind of poverty.

One analysis suggests that modern budgets push the effective poverty line far above official levels, revealing why many six-figure earners still feel financially strained.

Being poor is expensive. You don’t need to be told that, especially if you’re always living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by; you’ve noticed. Still, when you’re just trying to get ...

Before he died on Sept. 4 at the age of 99, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton left us with stark warnings about President Donald Trump and the American right. One of the country’s leading experts on how ...

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Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has stated that more than half of the population in Nigeria live in poverty while ...