Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks at the city’s annual budget breakfast. Wu is guaranteeing a summer job for every Boston public school student. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald/TNS) Nearly 44 million people ...

Eradicating digital poverty in the UK requires concerted effort from industry, government and civil society, according to the first-of-its-kind evidence review into the state of digital poverty. The ...

Professor Paul Bywaters, together with Guy Skinner from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, has produced The Relationship Between Poverty and Child Abuse and Neglect: New Evidence, a literature ...

The number of people unable to afford a standard living decreased last year, but relative poverty among single-parent families and absolute poverty both increased. Relative poverty refers to a ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

Chances are, most people you talk to would likely agree that it’s important to end poverty. But, if you were to ask all those people to explain poverty, chances are you would get a lot of different ...

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 ...

Nicolas Herault works for the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. The Melbourne Institute manages the Journeys Home survey as well as the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics ...