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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oxfam said most countries had failed to act to tackle inequality in the wake of the Covid pandemic - Copyright AFP/File TIMOTHY A. CLARY Oxfam said most countries had ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Child poverty in the United States more than ...