C. Nicole Mason is a political scientist and the executive director of the Women of Color Policy Network at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She wrote this for ...

The U.S. measure of poverty is an important social indicator that affects not only public perceptions of well-being in America, but also public policies and programs. The current measure was ...

What makes someone poor? Among those who study poverty, the answer has long been a lack of money. If your income falls below a certain level, you’re poor. Researchers study extreme poverty and chronic ...

In April 2015, Tajikistan introduced a new approach to assessing and measuring poverty that is based on international best-practices and which relies on the quarterly Household Budget Survey.

The newest way to accurately predict poverty comes from satellite images and machine learning. This imaging technique could make it easier for aid organizations to know where and how to spend their ...

The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) last week released findings from the seventh Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV 7), which shows significant improvement in ...

This article originally appeared on The Philadelphia Inquirer. The U.S. Census Bureau erred in calculating a major national poverty measure — the second mistake reported by the bureau in the last ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

July 13 (UPI) --In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared war on poverty: "The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it," he told Congress in his first State of the Union address. "We ...

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