Eradicating poverty is at the top of the U.N.’s stated goals. But their measure of poverty is only half the story.

Progress on infectious diseases, which thrive in the poorest countries, has slowed sharply. If the share of people ...

Depending on where you draw the line between rich and poor countries, the worst-off have stopped growing faster than richer ...

Despite wage gains, lower-income families have been hit hard by inflation and the expiration of pandemic-era benefits.

More Americans are struggling to afford necessities like rent, child care and medical expenses. That caused the Supplemental ...

More faced hardship in the United States last year, the Census Bureau said, as inflation and the end of subsidies outweighed ...