The history of capitalism, as portrayed in academia and among much of the media, is a sad story. It’s one of smokestacks, sweatshops, child labor, robber barons, social stratification and general ...

The percentage of public schools where more than three-quarters of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch—a key indicator of poverty—has increased in the past decade, and children at ...

Hundreds of needy people line up around the block to receive food from embattled 14th District Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de León, during a free food distribution outside his council office ...

America's long-running war on poverty "is largely over and a success." I am a researcher who has studied poverty for nearly 20 years in Cleveland, a city with one of the country's highest rates of ...

This chart shows the number of people worldwide affected by these indicators of multidimensional poverty.

The Madagascar Poverty Assessment report launched in February 2024 provides an account of the evolution of poverty and living conditions in Madagascar in the last decade (2012-2022). These are the ...

New projections from the Urban Institute find the poverty rate will drop to 7.7% in 2021. The New York Times reported that would be a decline of about 45% from 2018. Researchers credited stimulus ...