Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to ...

The FPL, which is referred to as the poverty line for short ... The federal poverty level is the annualized income earned by a household below which they would be eligible to receive certain ...

This means that one in eight Western Australians - and one in six children - are now living in poverty. Curtin University research indicates that the child poverty rate in WA will increase from 11.8 ...

Meanwhile, 6.9 per cent of people in Manitoba lived in deep poverty, which is the highest rate among the provinces. In other ...

Plan is an income-driven student debt repayment plan introduced by the Biden administration. It replaced a similar plan called REPAYE. The SAVE Plan offers more generous terms than other student loan ...

Social safety net programmes, such as Open Market Sales (OMS) and Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), provided less help to the ...

A new report from Statistics Canada says Nova Scotia had the highest rate of poverty among the provinces in 2022, and Manitoba had the highest rate of deep poverty. The report released today says 12.5 ...

THAT 14 million people in the UK, including more than four million children, are living in poverty is a “wearily familiar” ...

Milton is now the municipality with the highest poverty rate in the region, according to a report released Jan. 17 by ...