The organizers of a day-long meeting about poverty in Riley County are figuring out next steps, energized by what they say is interest they witnessed in tackling what has become ...

A new report by Columbia University researchers and the Robin Hood Foundation shows that between 2021 and 2022, the share of New Yorkers living in poverty — defined as income plus benefits that don’t ...

Reynolds Hutchins’ editorial in the Thanksgiving Daily Progress highlighted an urgent need and also pointed to a solution. Hutchins noted that Charlottesville is the second-most expensive place to ...

Most poverty-fighting efforts focus on meeting basic material needs, such as food and shelter. But this overlooks the ...

Under outgoing Mayor Stoney, Richmond’s anti-poverty strategy has included working with community health programs not only to address wellness but direct residents to jobs and other services. Back in ...

In either case, the key to achieving poverty reduction is to address the fundamental problem of unemployment and underemployment. Of the 35,000 working-age residents below the poverty line in the city ...

State lawmakers aim to provide no-strings-attached cash payments to new mothers and parents in New York to reduce some of the nation’s highest childhood poverty rates. USA TODAY Network reporters ...

New York is the only state with a refundable child tax credit that excludes low-income families from accessing the maximum amount, limiting its anti-poverty effect, experts say. If the governor’s ...

(New York) - Governments and international lenders like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank should create and support universal social security systems in accordance with their human rights ...

Thank you for your article about the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (“Baltimore taxpayers send millions to a youth fund. How much actually makes it to kids?” Nov. 19). It is critical to ensure that ...

Georgia state Rep. Teddy Reese, a Democrat in District 140, has been tasked with leading a new Columbus initiative with a lofty goal: reduce the local poverty rate by 50% in the next decade. The state ...

Researchers from the University of Zurich and Wuhan University have assessed how solar energy resources affect social and economic development to reduce poverty in China, using empirical data from the ...