Nine organizations will receive $40,000 each through the New Human Services Partnership between the county and Ann Arbor.

Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

McDowell County residents say it’s up to them to forge a brighter future after decades of federal projects haven’t eased ...

New research from the Urban Institute credits stimulus checks, federal unemployment benefits, and bigger food stamps with a sizable drop in poverty.

The Mexican government on Friday claimed that for the first time in history more  Mexicans are categorized as middle class ...

It would take $318 billion per year, or 0.3% of the world's economic output, to end most extreme poverty worldwide, according to newly published research.

An new article published in Social Work in Mental Health outlines the persistent systemic and structural social injustices ...

Farage’s conditional pledge to remove child benefit cap ‘would plunge 450,000 into poverty’ - Exclusive: New analysis by the ...

It's called the "graduation" approach — both financial and moral support to help people move from extreme poverty to ...

In his January 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” In the 50 years since ...

At the dawn of the new millennium, the United Nations set a goal of eradicating poverty by 2030. With 14 years left to go, we’ve already reduced the proportion of destitute people in world by 50 ...