The declaration follows a targeted four-year push led by local bodies under the state’s Extreme Poverty Eradication Programme ...

One in six American children under 5 lives in poverty — a crisis that shapes health, education and opportunity. PBS’s "Born ...

The measure of poverty in the United States, a basic basket of essential food items, hasn't changed in almost 60 years. One other stop we need to make before we delve into a look back at the look back ...

Mayor John Powers plans to launch his long-awaited poverty (now called "prosperity") initiatives after his "summit" scheduled for May. His success, I believe, will rest on the questions posed and with ...

Kevin Corinth’s op-ed “Will Biden Cross a Line on Poverty?” (May 23) highlights the Biden administration’s attempt to increase government spending by arbitrarily changing the definition of poverty.

About 20% of Long Island households are structurally poor, but many earn too much to be counted below the federal government's poverty line, according to a new report by the Suffolk County Legislature ...

Sasaki is president and CEO of United Way of San Diego County. She lives in Clairemont. Who do you think of when you envision a family living in poverty? The response may have been different a few ...

What is the state of poverty in Colorado? It seemed like a simple question, so I decided to learn more. This subject was anything but simple. When I began writing this column, I planned to bring a ...

A volunteer loads food into a cart at a mobile pantry. A fifth of Suffolk County residents live in poverty according to a legislative report. The legislature’s Welfare to Work Commission found that ...

Imagine you are an unborn spirit whom God has condemned to a life of poverty but has permitted to choose the nation in which to live. I'm betting that most any such condemned unborn spirit would ...

ROCHESTER — Is a $90,000 budget enough for a family of four in Olmsted County enough to live on? A United Way report released Tuesday says such families often struggle to afford basic household needs.

This article examines the evolution of dietary knowledge about French colonial Africa, from the 1920s to the early 1950s. More specifically, it focuses on efforts to quantify daily food intake by ...