Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods and services. However, important aspects of ...

Child poverty in the U.S. has fallen by more than half since the early 1990s. By David Leonhardt When President Bill Clinton signed a bipartisan bill tightening the rules around welfare eligibility in ...

Child poverty is growing in Olmsted County, and the Rochester Diversity Council wants to find out what can be done about it. The council has scheduled a public meeting entitled "The State of Poverty ...

Nearly a third of LAC's population lives with less than $8.30 per day (2021 PPP), while just over a third are considered middle class. This dashboard presents the trends in the poverty rate, the ...

In Cleveland today, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan devoted an entire speech to a topic President Obama has largely avoided in this campaign: poverty. While the GOP team has routinely ...

Partial Order Theory offers a powerful mathematical framework to compare objects when complete numerical aggregation is either impractical or misleading. In the context of multidimensional poverty ...