Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) heads to a vote in the Senate at the US Capitol. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of ...

Jeanne Guemmer of Shakopee decided between canned chicken and tuna on a pale, gray November afternoon. She stopped by the CAP Agency food shelf in Shakopee to pick up a week’s worth of groceries in ...

On Tuesday the Census Bureau is scheduled to release income and poverty statistics for 2022. It’s safe to say that the report will be hard to interpret. Last year, the two poverty measures released by ...

Why is there so much poverty in America? Matthew Desmond, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist, answers that complicated question in his latest book “Poverty, By America.” He argues that the United ...

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Human Organization is the journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the leading peer reviewed outlet for scholarship in the applied social sciences. The journal advances SfAA's mission ...

Chances are, most people you talk to would likely agree that it’s important to end poverty. But, if you were to ask all those people to explain poverty, chances are you would get a lot of different ...

— the year before economic reforms began — to 55.8 million in 2015. And the Human Development Index (HDI) for China has improved by 43 per cent between 1990 and 2013, compared to an improvement of ...

Mathematicians have used machine learning to develop a new model for measuring poverty in different countries that junks old notions of a fixed 'poverty line'. The study by academics at Aston ...

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020: Reversals of Fortune provides new data and analysis on the causes and consequences of the first reversal in poverty reduction in two decades. It identifies policy ...

The U.S. Census estimates that 13.4 percent of Americans, about 42 million, lived below the poverty line in 2017. Of course, poverty is far from evenly distributed across the United States, and ...

The Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society (AIS) has charged religious leaders to understand and imbibe the concept and culture of philanthropy, as part of measures to tackle poverty in the country.The ...