Florida’s higher poverty rates largely occur across the state’s panhandle. In Gadsden County, for example, one in four people live in poverty while two in five children do as well.

Pandemic-era poverty levels reached a new high in March 2021, right as a new stimulus was passed. That $1.9 trillion package contains several measures that could drastically cut poverty. Still ...

The Global Database of Shared Prosperity (World Bank) includes the most recent figures on income growth of the bottom 40 per cent and a few related indicators for nearly 80 countries, which are ...

Poverty in America continues to affect people of colour most But it is hard to work out which issues are caused by history and which by bad policy ...

Poverty levels in Colombia fell last year versus 2020, amid an economic recovery in the Andean country, but have yet to return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic, the government said ...

The report, Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa, says the share of Africans living in extreme poverty has fallen substantially—from 54% in 1990 to 41% in 2015—but due to high population growth ...

From Lawrence McQuillian of the Independent Institute: The poverty rate in the United States fell by half from 1950 to the start of the “War on Poverty.” And it was on track to continue ...

Chart: Student Poverty Disparities by State, 2015 A wide achievement gap between low-income students and their wealthier counterparts exists in every state in the nation.

Extreme poverty, where income does not cover the need for basic food, is stuck at around 13%. (Several governments, including the Brazilian and Colombian, have unveiled initiatives aimed at the ...