The burden of proof that microfinance makes any meaningful contribution to poverty reduction remains squarely with its practitioners. This is a high hurdle: a country achieving fast economic growth is ...

The U.S. has made significant strides in reducing child poverty over the past quarter century, with a new analysis finding a multitude of economic factors have benefited families and lifted children ...

The US Census Bureau publishes the Supplemen­tal Poverty Measure (SPM) each year to provide important information on low-income Americans’ well-being. In early 2021, a National Academies of Sciences, ...

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared war on poverty. “The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it,” he told Congress in his first State of the Union address. “We cannot afford ...

For the richest country in history, poverty in America remains jarringly widespread. Taking government assistance into account, one in eight American adults was classified as poor on the eve of the ...

IT SEEMED LIKE a blustery overpromise when President Joe Biden pledged in July to oversee “the largest ever one-year decrease in child poverty in the history of the United States”. By the end of the ...

One of the American Enterprise Institute’s most long-standing research areas is the study of poverty, opportunity, and social capital. In line with its mission to stand in solidarity with those at the ...

To understand modern racial inequalities, historical context is crucial. That's according to new research from Penn sociologist Regina Baker published in the American Journal of Sociology. Baker found ...

In 2005, Nelson Mandela gave his now famous speech at the Make Poverty History rally in London’s Trafalgar Square, and called on world leaders to make poverty history. Addressing a staggering crowd of ...

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