There is an underlying commonality that all communities suffering from poverty experience, which is the lack of access to adequate education, sanitation, nutrition and housing.

Certain types of cancer are linked to areas with high poverty, according to a new study, and many of those types of cancer are more lethal than those found in wealthier areas. Published Tuesday in ...

The type of poverty envisioned is, in most cases, as important as or more important than a respondent's own demographic characteristics in predicting what type of causal attributions he or she makes ...

A paper by two academic economists may help redefine what poverty means, and provide new paths to confront it.

India has made significant progress in poverty reduction, lifting 171 million people out of extreme poverty, with rates dropping from 16.2% in 2011 to 2.3% in 2022–23.

There are multiple types of poverty. Situational poverty is widespread, and many families experienced this during the pandemic, especially those working in the service industry. Fortunately, most ...

Last week, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (henceforth, NAS) released a new “consensus study” on poverty. The study was commissioned by the Census Bureau to ...

Ending all types of poverty for everyone. By reducing the number of people living in poverty, we build their resilience and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events ...

Period poverty describes the struggle to afford menstrual products. Black women face this type of poverty more than other racial groups, for reasons that span from practical to psychological and ...

A Greene County nonprofit is working with schools, homeless shelters, and local food pantries to abolish a type of poverty that many people don’t know about.

Wednesday’s discussion with experts and leaders from around the state examined poverty as a contributing factor to gun violence, and possible solutions.

Bashshar Haydar, Gerhard Øverland, Hypocrisy, Poverty Alleviation, and Two Types of Emergencies, The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 2019), pp. 3-17 ...