About 43 million people — or 12.9% of Americans — lived in poverty last year. That’s according to this week’s release of the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, a more comprehensive measure ...

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 ...

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 5 (UPI) --Income-based poverty in Argentina fell to 36.3% of the population in the third quarter of this year, down from 45.6% in the same period in 2024, according to a report from ...