Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked up to ...

The poverty rate in the Syracuse City School District fell more than 8 percentage points between 2023 and 2024, according to new data from the Census Bureau. A total of 28.97% of kids ages 5 to 17 in ...

Pakistan’s poverty rate has climbed to its highest level in more than a decade, with nearly one in three citizens now living below the poverty line, according to an official survey released by ...

A total of 15 New York school districts had poverty rates of over 30% in 2024, according to new data. The Jamestown City School District in Western New York had the highest poverty rate in the state ...

Pakistan’s poverty rate has climbed to 28.8 percent in 2024-25, up from 21.9 percent in 2018-19, marking a sharp reversal in earlier gains and reflecting mounting economic pressures over the past six ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

Non-cash benefits bring many Americans above the poverty line — and our poverty statistics should reflect that. Over the past 50 years, the federal government’s welfare spending has increased by 765 ...

Canada’s poverty statistics tell us one story, but a walk through any major city reveals something quite different. While the official poverty rate has hovered around 10% based on the most recent ...

The formula for determining the poverty line hasn’t changed since the early 1960s. One Dallas economist has some suggestions for changing that.

Reform’s head of policy got into a spat with Sky News’ Trevor Phillips on Sunday over his party’s plans to keep the two-child benefit cap while cutting business rates for pubs. “Reform’s policy is to ...

In a world riven by great power rivalry, strong nations steer outcomes. National strength is built on a productive economy.

In 2024, The 74 looked for school districts that were doing an exceptional job of teaching kids to read. One of the places we ...