Newcastle University received funding to support this research from Standard Life Foundation, a charity whose objective is to address financial hardship. Mark Shucksmith was principal investigator but ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

Dan Brockington received funding from the DfID / ESRC Growth Research Programme to conduct this work, and gratefully acknowledges that funding. The grant reference is ES/L012413/2. One of the clearest ...

The country has lifted more than 700mn people out of indigence, but some doubt Xi Jinping’s claim that the mission is complete ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

Ask Americans what parts of the country are the most poverty-stricken and they will probably talk about cities like Cleveland, Baltimore, and St. Louis. They aren’t likely to mention rural areas in ...

The map shows a change in nonmetropolitan county persistent poverty area status between the yeasrs 2007 and 2021. The research indicates that the majority (86%) of all nonmetropolitan counties ...

Yuchih Choy loads boxes of food into a pickup at the West Texas Food Bank in Odessa on Oct. 5, 2022. Credit: Mark Rogers for The Texas Tribune The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined ...

Upon his return to the House Appropriations Committee after an 18-year hiatus, Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., has one central focus: fighting poverty in rural counties. It’s been a longtime focus of ...

Poverty in America is structural and intentional. And rural poverty, especially so. Rural poverty was formed and compounded by intentional policy choices like the enslavement of pan-African people in ...