This year marked the 80th anniversary of the United Nations’ founding. However, U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the UN ...

The world faces unresolved conflicts, growing climate crises, attacks on aid workers, two famines, and diminishing political will—along with significant aid cuts. Altogether, 2025 has earned a grim ...

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.

New targets are maternal mortality rate at 110, neonatal mortality rate at 15, and under-five mortality at 25.

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

The City of New York hit another milestone last week in its underlying ongoing crisis: poverty. This marker came in the form ...

Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday announced his administration will invest $19 million into programs to end child poverty across the state.

Nation Media Group's health reporter Angela Oketch has emerged the winner of the 2025 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) awards, media category, for her consistent reporting on the country's health ...

California tied with Louisiana for having the highest poverty rate in the country. Census Bureau figures showed the state's Supplemental Poverty Measure stood at 17.7% in 2024. That's about 7 million ...

At the forefront of addressing climate change, poverty, gender equality, and economic growth are the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Are they working? During the High-Level Political ...

New Census Bureau data highlights sharp contrasts in poverty across the U.S., with some states reporting rates nearly three times higher than others. Over the three-year period from 2022 through 2024, ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — The child poverty rate in Syracuse fell by more than 7 percentage points in 2024, but the city still had one of the highest rates of child poverty in the nation, according to new ...