BlogAction Day, is a day when bloggers around the world focus on one particular topic on their respective blogs. The topic for 2008 is poverty. This global day encourages discussion and leads to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aisha Nyandoro is a leading voice on equitable economic policies. A recent AP-NORC poll reveals a pervasive misunderstanding about ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The goal of alleviating global poverty is not ...

Dom Byrne is a freelance radio and podcast producer based in Brighton, UK. Poverty is about more than just meeting basic material needs, says Catherine Thomas. Its corrosive effects are also social ...

The United States is the ‘land of opportunities’ for those who have the skill and the discipline to achieve something big in life. According to the US Census Bureau 2022 data, the poverty rate in the ...

NOTE: This post was co-authored with members of the CUESI Lab—Lindsey Nenadal, Ph.D., Katherine Griffin, Ph.D., Taylor Hazelbaker, M.A., and Kristina Brittenham, J ...

A tragic history of conflicts and instability has left Sierra Leone’s economy in shambles, and a population struggling with the aftermath. Sierra Leone’s poverty rate stands at 56.80%, according to ...

Evidence continues to mount that there is a correlation between growing up in poverty, brain development, and lower academic achievement. The link between socioeconomic status and academic achievement ...

(RNS) — In the run-up to Election Day in 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden delivered a major address on strategies to reduce U.S. poverty. To his credit, that strategy was later reflected in ...

A World Bank study introduces “emissions-adjusted poverty,” showing that carbon emissions today directly create future years ...