Poverty in the United States fell last year, even amid the impact of the pandemic, due to government aid, including relief payments and unemployment insurance. That's according to new data just ...

The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released ...

The official rate rose slightly to 11.4%, but the agency says that after accounting for pandemic relief aid, the poverty rate fell to 9.1%. The uninsured population also rose slightly. U.S. poverty ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Two out of every five students in Syracuse city schools are living in poverty, data recently released by the United States Census Bureau shows. Syracuse City School District ranked ...

Members of the California Poor People’s Campaign march on F Street near downtown Fresno to raise awareness on poverty in this April 2019 file photo. Across Fresno, Kings, Madera, Merced and Tulare ...

This paper presents two new borrowing agreements for the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT). These two agreements with the IMF, acting as Trustee for the PRGT, and the Government of Canada and ...