When most people hear the word poverty, they think of empty pockets, begging on the streets, or not being able to afford food. However, poverty is much deeper than just not having money. It can affect ...

Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

Poverty is as misunderstood as any subject can be. At one level, it could mean no food, no clothes, bad health, and recognized inadequacy of shelters, amenities, and services.

What makes someone poor? Among those who study poverty, the answer has long been a lack of money. If your income falls below a certain level, you’re poor. Researchers study extreme poverty and chronic ...

The United States is slowly trying to piece itself back together after being ravaged by an unrelenting pandemic (which still is not over, by the way, so people need to start acting like it), a racial ...

Certain types of cancer are linked to areas with high poverty, according to a new study, and many of those types of cancer are more lethal than those found in wealthier areas. Published Tuesday in the ...

Are you familiar with escape rooms? The only way you can escape is to solve a complicated problem. But what happens if you fail to escape the room on time? Having lost, you are then “imprisoned” in ...

Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

Peter Singer is well known to have argued for our responsibilities to address global poverty based on an analogy with saving a drowning child. Just as the passerby has a duty to save that child, we ...