Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

In the Bible, Jesus traveled around Galilee and Judea preaching the good news to underserved communities. He was often surrounded by those of meager means and in one story, he fed a crowd of some ...

Governments world over take measures to lessen poverty and develop such policies which ensure sustainable supply of necessary food and other livelihood goods to the vulnerable. However, the main ...

There are many synonyms for the word “poverty.” Used as a noun, it can mean scarcity, shortage, insufficiency, hardship, destitution, distress, need, deprivation and impoverishment. It is easier to ...

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he’d been out of work for nearly two years, in this ...

Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According ...

The federal government is looking at new measures to help define poverty. This is the first time in decades that a new definition is being considered. The current measure, which is mainly of food, is ...

For the past 25 years, my research as a cultural anthropologist has taken me into the homes and neighborhoods of people living in poverty in cities and rural communities throughout the U.S. To better ...

RICHARD PARKER Age: 64 Designation: Senior Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School Education: B.A. in Economics, Dartmouth College D.Phil in Economics, University of Oxford Career: ...

Single mothers raising children under the age of 18 make up more than a third of the families meeting the federal poverty definition in North Carolina. That’s $20,030 a year, before taxes, for a ...