Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising, according to ...

The nation’s poverty rate rose last year and among children it more than doubled from 2021 to 2022 as pandemic-era benefits that kept many families afloat expired, the U.S. Census Bureau reported ...

Figure 4b: The poorest regions are furthest behind and contribute more to the Global Prosperity Gap relative to their population in 2024 Figure 5: Limited gains in the Global Gap due to a slowdown of ...

Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising, according to ...

The City of New York hit another milestone last week in its underlying ongoing crisis: poverty. This marker came in the form ...

This was supposed to be the year that Beijing would announce it had ended absolute poverty in China, fulfilling a key pledge of President Xi Jinping and one of the founding missions of the Chinese ...

LONDON, Oct 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Extreme poverty will rise for the first time this century as COVID-19 hammers the global economy, the World Bank said on Wednesday, predicting the pandemic ...

The pandemic will push 47 million more women and girls below the poverty line, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) The COVID-19 ...

Deaths in the region have doubled in the last five months. In the United States and other Western nations, the toll from COVID-19 is finally beginning to ease, at least in part, because of the rapid ...