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United Way of Central Shenandoah Valley's Amanda Leech came before the City Council to explain what that has meant for her ...
A recent study by the Appalachian Regional Commission is comparing rural Appalachia to the rest of rural America.
This budget is a reckless and dangerous bill that would push millions of people in America deeper into hunger, illness and ...
Now that she's been living in China for over five years, Lightyear says when she visits the U.S., she experiences reverse ...
That myth was not born by accident. It was crafted, polished and weaponized. It was built on decades of policy choices and ...
A study in The Lancet suggests that cuts to USAID could result in the death of 14 million people over the next five years.
The world’s nations are gathering in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor ...
Many countries face escalating debt burdens, declining investments, decreasing international aid and increasing trade ...
The World Bank has updated its global poverty lines. This latest revision uses 2021 purchasing power parities, as well as updated national poverty lines that better capture countries’ household ...
The official poverty rate, as measured by the US Census, is seriously outdated. It was developed in 1963 by an economist at the Social Security Administration, and it determined that the threshold ...
About 1 in 9 Americans are facing poverty today. But more than half of the people residing in the US will experience poverty at some point in their adult lives.