A viral claim that $140K is the “real poverty line” has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.

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In February 2021, China announced the complete eradication of absolute poverty — an unprecedented achievement in human history, considering the ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...

NASHILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Human trafficking is not just a crime in other countries or states, it is happening in Middle Tennessee, and the U.S. State Department said the number of cases increased ...

I can’t afford to properly feed my children. It’s a bitter feeling when all we have at the end of the month is bread and butter … It tears you apart. I feel like I’m not doing justice to anyone, not ...

Elon Musk says AI and robotics will solve the US debt crisis within three years by driving productivity beyond inflation.

Press Release - new report from the World Bank Group finds that Equatorial Guinea stands at a decisive moment. The Equatorial Guinea Poverty and Equity Assessment, the first of its kind, finds that, ...