Nearly 700 million people around the world are classified as living in extreme poverty, surviving on less than USD2.15 per ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—887 million out of 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to ...

Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and ...

The link between wealth and longevity is well established. But this new research suggests that the life-expectancy gap ...

Why a white fast-food worker in Mississippi who never started college is the statistical epitome of a low-wage worker 615_McDonalds_Hiring_Reuters.jpg One in four U.S. workers -- or nearly 40 million ...

A shrinking number of Californians live in poverty. But the improvement is much too slow. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the latest “supplemental” poverty measurements from the Census Bureau. These ...

Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.

By casting poverty as an emergency, it calls for deep‑seated reforms that go far beyond charity, striving to lift the voices ...

More than one in three children in Romania, roughly 1.25 million, live in poverty, and the percentage rises dramatically to ...