The scheme was launched to reduce poverty, but experts never anticipated the remarkable effects it would have on the ...

Social Security is helping more than just older adults as more children start to live with their grandparents.

New research shows how much we’d need to increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance to bring retirees who rent out of poverty.

Having gone right round the world in the course of this series, I think it is time to return to England. After all, that is ...

In the last three weeks alone, since President Trump took office, there have been significant changes in the healthcare ...

Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority reject President Trump offer of refugee status and resettlement in ...

The U.K. seized upon a public health crisis to dismantle its development agency. The U.S. is mobilizing around a manufactured ...

Labour's rightward shift to counter the threat of Nigel Farage's Reform is doomed to fail and will only hasten voter exodus ...

A new World Bank report has revealed a sobering outlook for poverty eradication, projecting that 622 million people will still live in extreme poverty by 2030 despite decades of global efforts to end ...

In an opening address, the pope, lamented that throughout the world, children’s rights “are daily trampled upon and ignored.” ...

Three under–the–radar stories from the Americas highlight Haiti’s election struggles, Chile’s new biodiversity park, and ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to ...