Poverty in the U.S. The number of Americans struggling to get by has increased in the past few years. The U.S. Census Bureau produces annual poverty estimates to measure the economic well-being of ...

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TOPEKA (KSNT) – Federal officials have released a new report on national poverty statistics which shows how many people are living in or near poverty in Kansas. The U.S. Census Bureau (USCB) recently ...

Nearly one in 5 people in the world lives in poverty. Even in many developed countries such as the U.S., poverty rates exceed 12%. In an age of breathtaking technological progress and dynamic social ...

Child poverty in our state has nearly tripled since 2021. More than 63,000 children were in poverty in 2021. That number soared to over 180,000 in 2022. That is roughly a 192% increase from 2021. The ...

Chairman Smith, Subcommittee Chairman LaHood, Ranking Member Davis, and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. I am Bruce Meyer, McCormick Foundation ...

When Congress gave more families access to the child tax credit in March 2021, the expansion lifted 2.1 million children out of poverty — a result that Americans of all political persuasions should ...

HOUSTON — Poverty levels in Houston are high, with new census data ranking Houston just below Philadelphia and New York. Kroger is now stepping up to take aim at that disparity through a new ...

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...