In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Efforts to combat child poverty in New York intensified as the Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council (CPRAC) issued its final report, calling for targeted policies to cut ...

“Joining the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty reflects GAIN’s commitment to collective action. In the current ...

This paper presents the last six borrowing agreements that were concluded between October 2023 and February 2024 to provide new loan resources to the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) as part ...

Official figures going back to 2018 are set to take billions in under-reported benefits income into account.

(Reuters) -Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that ...

In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, poverty jumped from 28.7% to 35.3% -a surge of nearly one-fourth within a year. The situation in ...

Georgia state Rep. Teddy Reese, a Democrat in District 140, has been tasked with leading a new Columbus initiative with a lofty goal: reduce the local poverty rate by 50% in the next decade. The state ...

The Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council has laid out a road map. One of their top recommendations: a further expansion of the Empire State Child Credit. Credit: Getty Images. This year’s state ...

That our fellow Canadians are suffering from hunger, homelessness and hopelessness should be imperative enough for Ottawa to act ...

A renowned political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, will headline the maiden Discourse Series on Poverty Reduction in Lagos. The event, scheduled for Friday, October 17, at the Nigerian Institute of ...

Just over 2,700 households are being reached under phase one of the National Energy Poverty Reduction programme, says ...