Worldwide have reached more than 10,000 students with financial literacy curriculum, thanks to the efforts of more than 180 VFS employee volunteers and support ...

A stock image of a child eating. In 2023, the official poverty rate fell 0.4 percentage points to 11.1 percent. A stock image of a child eating. In 2023, the official poverty rate fell 0.4 ...

Abbé Pierre campaigned for decades against homelessness and poverty. Revelations about his treatment of women have destroyed his image as a symbol of virtue in France. By Aurelien Breeden ...

Three-fourths of counties with the highest pedestrian death rates also had persistently high poverty rates, according to a ...

India announced recently that it was ‘close to victory in its fight against poverty’, with only 2.2% of its population living below the World Bank-defined extreme poverty line. Ten years ago, it was ...

United Against Poverty, a local nonprofit, took in water during the deluge. United Against Poverty is now calling for volunteers to help clean up the damage to its campus along East Michigan ...

Claire Wladis receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Many college students don’t have enough time for their studies. This “time poverty,” as we call it, is often due to ...

As research reveals a quarter of parents are struggling to feed their children, frontline workers say family poverty is now ...

The two presidential candidates can both point to records of pushing poverty rates down, but their approaches could hardly be more different. By Jason DeParle Jason DeParle, who covers poverty ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Left unchecked, poverty during the pandemic could have reached the highest levels in over 50 years. Instead, Congress acted with speed and purpose. Almost ...