Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.

Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...

While the economy was a key topic of discussion for the two presidential candidates when they met on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday, the duel ended without explicit consideration of ...

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

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 ...

Stories move us. Numbers guide us. Together, they give us the power to act. Too often, conversations about poverty rely on stories or numbers but not both. We share a moving story of a child ...

Rising rents are squeezing families' finances and contributed to an uptick last year in child poverty in Rhode Island. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current) Rhode Island had a higher ...

Gov. Wes Moore signed data protection bills and legislation to eradicate poverty throughout Maryland into law on May 9. The Maryland Kids Code creates regulations designed to keep kids safe while ...