Today, fourth-grade students in Mississippi read almost a full school year ahead of their peers in New York City, according to national test scores.

Beyond the Trump administration, the IMF and the World Bank must remember their other stakeholders in the US: the American ...

Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the U.S. Health and Human Services agency, ...

Holiday grasped the impact the song had and knew she had to record it, but when she approached Columbia ... out the problem America had with poverty and inequality. He based the tune on The ...

For millions of Americans living below the poverty line, health care is not merely expensive — it is a luxury.

Mizzou’s Columns and Jesse Hall dome make for great postcards, but they don’t tell Columbia’s whole story. Beyond campus and The District lies another Columbia where utility shutoff notices ...

World Bank has said that India has achieved significant progress in poverty reduction and employment growth has outpaced the working-age population. In a report on ‘India Poverty and Equity ...

A World Bank report reveals India's significant progress in poverty reduction, with extreme poverty plummeting from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people out of extreme ...

Note: Poverty status is determined for individuals in housing units and noninstitutional group quarters. It is unavailable for children younger than 15 who are not related to the householder, people ...

UK charities have warned Sir Keir Starmer that scrapping the two-child benefit limit is the most cost-effective way to reduce child poverty. In a letter to the prime minister, groups including ...

“The District of Columbia saw the greatest child poverty reduction, a reduction of more than one-third,” the analysis stated. The analysis comes as advocates and Democrats have raised the ...

The World Bank on Thursday projected that poverty in Nigeria will increase by 3.6 percentage points over the next five years, rising through 2027. This was contained in the Bank’s Africa’s ...