Statistics read by Mikal at the beginning of the doc make that clear. “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people live in poverty,” Mikal says.

Northwell Health notes that breaking stigma and barriers against access to hygiene products requires active cooperation from ...

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of ...

Zambia ranks among the countries with highest levels of poverty and inequality globally. More than 58% (2015) of Zambia’s 19.5 million people earn less than the international poverty line of $1.90 per ...

Note: Data presented here were used in the preparation of the 2023/2024 Human Development Report, released on 13 March 2024. Data used in these indices and other human development indicators included ...

The poverty cycle can be broken with access to education. In privileged communities, children often learn financial skills from a young age, while their peers in less privileged areas miss out on ...

Supporters think that Vance effectively reveals the structural causes of the poverty cycle in the “Rust Belt” by fusing human experience with macro-social concerns. However, the book’s subjective ...