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 ...

Social Indicators Research, Vol. 148, No. 1 (February 2020), pp. 105-126 (22 pages) The first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) tasks countries with eradicating poverty in all its dimensions ...

A new report from the National Academy of Sciences seeks to redefine poverty. The NAS presents the effort as a matter of science: “An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how ...

A little more than 1 in 10, that's how many working-age Hoosiers live below the official poverty line. A new report from the Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute suggests that the number is ...

Could a new approach to defining persistent poverty actually hurt rural communities? A rural American small town with a two-lane paved road and a church steeple. One of the federal government’s key ...

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he’d been out of work for nearly two years, in this ...

When we talk about poverty- you always think about somebody else right? Poor?...Me?...Not me. Well, a report released today says when you look at poverty in terms of ...

Rocio Cifuentes says the rollout of universal free meals at Welsh primary schools has "taken away stigma" [Getty Images] The ...

Single mothers raising children under the age of 18 make up more than a third of the families meeting the federal poverty definition in North Carolina. That’s $20,030 a year, before taxes, for a ...