Short videos and livestreaming applications are playing an increasingly important role in helping users in poverty-stricken areas to gain extra income by creating social e-commerce businesses and ...

At a private event featuring film screenings and a panel discussion, the Sundance Institute today announced the Sundance Institute Short Film Challenge, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates ...

Now that the dust has settled from the election, I hope that Congressman Jim Hagedorn will begin to work towards bipartisan, humane, long-term ways to address employment and poverty. Current attempts ...

Proposals for a basic child allowance have received increasing attention recently. Some argue for making the existing Child Tax Credit refundable (meaning it would go to those without income tax ...

The 2014 Census data underscore how much policy matters in cutting poverty and improving economic security for low- and middle-income families. A child, center, with his father, right, raises a dollar ...

So when Clevelanders do better economically and decide to move, they often move to the suburbs. That means Cleveland is left with a smaller population with a higher percentage of people in poverty.

Of the thousands of unaccompanied children apprehended at the U.S. border in recent months, many can be attributed to poverty and regional violence in three Central American countries, a new U.S.

Martha J. Bailey, an associate professor of economics at the University of Michigan, is the co-editor of "Legacies of the War on Poverty." Updated January 5, 2014, 6:30 PM The "war on poverty" aimed ...

Rise in Poverty, Hunger Shows Need to Expand Social Protection (Nairobi) – The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill ...