With just under five years left to complete the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, a new report shows what's hampering ...

Stacker consulted America's Health Rankings' 2022 Senior Report to determine which states are the most and least healthy for ...

Few ideas command more universal agreement than the belief that children must be protected. Across cultures, religions, and ...

All your responses, at least the ones that I've read, about when to take Social Security are tilted to men, with males as the default human. A case in point: "'I claimed Social Security at 62': At 76, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson discusses his War on Poverty with Sargent Shriver, left, and Bernard Boutin, right, in 1965. (Anonymous/AP) Eighty-four years is a good, healthy life in America. How much ...

Michael W. Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked up to US$140,000 for a family of four. Currently, a family of that size has ...

A total of 15 New York school districts had poverty rates of over 30% in 2024, according to new data. The Jamestown City School District in Western New York had the highest poverty rate in the state ...

The poverty rate in the Syracuse City School District fell more than 8 percentage points between 2023 and 2024, according to new data from the Census Bureau. A total of 28.97% of kids ages 5 to 17 in ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy In Nusa Tenggara Timur, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in ...

Non-cash benefits bring many Americans above the poverty line — and our poverty statistics should reflect that. Over the past 50 years, the federal government’s welfare spending has increased by 765 ...

Low pension adequacy, restrictive safety nets, and life-course inequality explain why old age so often means poverty in Korea. South Korea is aging faster than any other OECD country, but its most ...