In an ironic twist of economic injustice, being poor often costs more. This isn't just about income disparity; it's about a systemic "poverty premium" where individuals with limited financial ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The dramatic lurch of hundreds of millions of people from poverty since the millennium began has not resulted in a truly global middle class, a new report says. Instead, the ...

Students with grumbling stomachs lined up outside of Pima Residence Hall on Wednesday night to learn their fate at the 16th annual Hunger Banquet. The students had fasted for 30 hours to simulate ...

A SUNY Cortland communication studies class will offer its interpretation of poverty in Cortland County with a gallery of mobile photography on Thursday, April 26, at the Blue Frog Café and Music Club ...

A new study reveals that cross-class connections are key to lifting children out of poverty. Behind the research is Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University and director of Opportunity ...

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime is already reshaping global trade and spiking government customs revenue. But ...

Among the most notorious consequences of the covid-19 pandemic are changes in the economy at the macro and micro levels. A new study from the Pew Research Center, based on data from the World Bank, ...

During the next session, legislators should support Universal School meals for all public school students to help combat childhood hunger The ending of the pandemic-era Child Tax Credit (CTC) that was ...

Mr. Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, is the director of its Eviction Lab and the author of “Poverty, by America” and “Evicted.” The United States has a poverty problem. A third of the country’s ...

Barabanki (UP): In a historic feat for a remote hamlet in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki, a 15-year-old has become the first villager to pass the class 10 board exams since independence. Ramkeval hails ...