Being poor is expensive. You don’t need to be told that, especially if you’re always living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by; you’ve noticed. Still, when you’re just trying to get ...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, one in ten older adults in the U.S. — or 5.9 million individuals 65 or over — lives in poverty, although the percentage varies from state to state. In the District ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...

The Role of Banking Access in Reducing Poverty, Why It’s Expensive to Be Poor in America, Addressing Systemic Barriers to Economic Opportunity For many of us, the financial system is a lifeline — ...

Lennard J. Davis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

UNICEF works with governments and other partners to address the impacts of poverty on children and to mitigate poverty-related risks to their health, education and well-being. A look at recent and ...

“Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their ...

“Poverty is an ethical concept, not a statistical one”. — John Wall, World Bank, 2006 IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the country’s 240 million people live below or around the ...