In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how ...

NiaChloe Bowman wanted to get out of debt as soon as possible after graduating from college. She wiped out $19,000 in under ...

Extreme poverty will rise for the first time this century as COVID-19 hammers the global economy, the World Bank said on ...

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.

The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into ...

Bill Gates is calling for shifting climate change focus from reducing carbon emissions to fighting poverty and preventing ...

The Social Security Administration announced a 2.8% COLA increase for 2026, raising average benefits by $56 a month.

One in ten Greek workers is at risk of poverty, placing Greece among the EU’s poorest nations, according to Eurostat.

A fifth of Louisiana's children live in poverty, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation. That could jump to a third.

Oklahoma House Speaker Kyle Hilbert has called for more investment in education to address poverty rates in the state.

It had been previously thought that the Poverty Point earthworks in northeastern Louisiana were inhabited some 3,500 years ...