NEW YORK (AP) — The dramatic lurch of hundreds of millions of people from poverty since the millennium began has not resulted in a truly global middle class, a new report says. Instead, the ...

“More older Americans are sinking into poverty, just as 11,000 are turning 65 every day. A country as rich as ours should be ...

A new study reveals that cross-class connections are key to lifting children out of poverty. Behind the research is Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University and director of Opportunity ...

The U.S. middle class is getting smaller and the number of Americans falling toward poverty is on the rise. As reported on News Center 7 at 5:30, more and more people are falling toward poverty as ...

The coronavirus pandemic erased a year of growth in global living standards while also setting back progress on reducing poverty by several years, the Pew Research Center reported on Thursday. [READ: ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — With one of the highest poverty rates in the country, the city of Tucson is working with University of Arizona's school of Sociology to find ways to help low income families in ...