Alaska did not have the highest outright ... [+] poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older from 2012 to 2022. Poverty in the United States ...

Despite the tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty, rates remain stubbornly high in low-income countries and those affected by conflict and ... and four of the 35 recognized fragile and ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States ... rates. But racial discrimination does not appear to explain why poor children in the U.S. are so ...

Poverty rates have also plunged during that time ... the percentage of people with income below the poverty threshold was highest among unmarried households with children. While the CBO did ...

Currently, the United States spends about a trillion ... We are clearly spending a lot of money so why do we still have such a high poverty rate? The simplest answer is that the government does ...

The BBC, working with more than 70 broadcasters around the world, is hosting a debate about contemporary poverty with Why Poverty? – a set of ground-breaking international documentaries ...