New York’s top leaders will need to make tough decisions in the coming months as they confront billions in lost federal funding for the state’s largest and oldest safety net programs. Last week, ...

Variation in PICU mortality by ethnicity and area-level deprivation highlights the importance of further investigation into ...

Children from ethnic minority backgrounds and those living in areas with higher levels of child poverty were more likely to ...

The bill, ushered through Congress by Republican leadership and signed by Trump Friday, includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, ...

ALICE (asset limited, income constrained, employed) report shows Clark County households bring in income above the federal ...

Estimating the macroeconomic implications of climate change impacts and adaptation options is a topic of intense research.

In the US, the so-called “moral imperative” to work is bumping up against a less romantic reality: wages that lag behind ...

The World Bank has introduced a new global poverty threshold, raising the international poverty line from $2.15 to $3 per person per day.In local terms, the new benchmark translates to approximately ...

Federal Poverty Guidelines help determine eligibility for programs like Medicaid, SNAP, and ACA subsidies. Knowing the ...

Social Security benefits are not as high as many people might expect. In fact, if you are trying to live on your Social ...

The NITI Aayog’s multi-dimensional poverty index is a different metric altogether, akin to HDI. Therefore, it is high time that a credible income poverty line is drawn up.

Last week, the World Bank announced a new poverty line to decide how many people worldwide live in “extreme poverty". The new threshold is higher than the previous one even in inflation-adjusted ...