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About 43 million people — or 12.9% of Americans — lived in poverty last year. That’s according to this week’s release of the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, a more comprehensive measure ...

New federal data shows that poverty among Allen County’s school-age children is rising, even as unemployment remains low and jobs are widely available.

Every year, the old mainstream media discovers how many Americans are living in poverty and are without health insurance. This is made possible by the hard work of people at the U.S. Census Bureau, ...

Stories move us. Numbers guide us. Together, they give us the power to act. Too often, conversations about poverty rely on stories or numbers but not both. We share a moving story of a child ...

Rising rents are squeezing families' finances and contributed to an uptick last year in child poverty in Rhode Island. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current) Rhode Island had a higher ...

NEW DELHI: The Modi government is celebrating a drop in extreme poverty to 5.3% but this is based on a poverty line of USD 3 per day which is certainly not enough to live with dignity, the Congress ...

Asian Americans are often portrayed as educationally and financially successful when compared with other racial or ethnic groups. However, Asian origin groups in the United States vary widely in their ...

Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According ...