Nature25 天
Migration, poverty and inequality
People re-locate for various reasons, both legal and illegal, often risking their lives to escape from political oppression, persecution, war and poverty, as well as to be reunited with family and ...
The New York Times21 天
We Need a New Global Measure for Poverty
Sept. 24, 2024 Until fairly recently the majority of humanity lived in what we would now consider extreme poverty. Just two centuries ago, about three-quarters of the world were extremely poor.
The Economist26 天
The world’s poorest countries have experienced a brutal decade
Each year since the turn of the millennium, a cast of aid workers, bureaucrats and philanthropists, who often claim credit for this extraordinary plunge in extreme poverty, has met on the ...
Trump and Harris Both Like a Child Tax Credit, but With Different Aims
Kamala Harris’s campaign is pushing a version of the credit intended to fight child poverty, while Donald J. Trump sees the ...
The Express Tribune13 天
Annual inflation slides to 3.5-year low
Pakistan's annual inflation rate dropped to a 3.5-year low of 6.9%, driven by a favorable base effect and lower ...
Yahoo21 天
Where Does Poverty Come From?
Barbara Lee should spend some time with Magatte Wade. “Poverty just doesn’t happen,” Rep. Lee, a California Democrat, declared at the launch of the “Children’s Budget,” a kind of ...
CNN17 天
Poverty in Argentina soars to more than 50% as government austerity bites
Argentina’s poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data released on Thursday showed, the first hard evidence of the painful impact of libertarian President ...
Bloomberg L.P.18 天
Poverty Soars Past 50% in Argentina as Milei Austerity Hits Hard
About 52.9% of Argentines were mired below the poverty line in the first half of the year, up from 41.7% in the second half of 2023, according to government data published Thursday.
Is the UK’s child poverty rate 10 times that of the Nordic countries?
A widely-seen social media post claims that child poverty in the UK is significantly higher than in the Nordic countries. However, the numbers don't appear to tell the truth.View on euronews ...
Tunisia’s young democracy flounders as its president wins a second term
Tunisia was the location of an uprising against corruption, poverty and political repression in 2011 that ousted longtime ...
The Bryan Times6 天
SNAP program slides its requirements
On Friday, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) announced a change to the state-funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), creating a sliding scale to ease the transiti ...
Juno and the Paycock at the Gielgud Theatre review: Succession star J. Smith-Cameron is ...
Despite the actress’s great performance, Sean O’Casey’s tragicomedy has dated badly and the production plays it strangely ...