More than one billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half of them in countries experiencing conflict, according to a new United Nations report. Countries at war have higher levels of ...

In 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 16 percent of the world’s population, but 67 percent of the people living in extreme poverty. Two thirds of the world’s population in extreme poverty live in ...

Oxfam predicted in its new report that the world was on track to see at least five trillionaires within a decade.

Citing World Bank data, the group pointed to lingering poverty, saying the number of people living on less than $6.85 per day has "barely changed" since 1990. Oxfam used Forbes' "Real-Time ...

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

Anti-poverty report sees billionaire wealth surging as poverty is unchanged since 1990 COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | On ...

In the United States, 42 million people live in poverty. Nearly 40% of single-mother households are impoverished, and alarmingly, 1 in 3 children raised in poverty stay impoverished through adulthood.

More than 32 per cent of people were estimated to be living below the poverty ... continues to be on the better side, the World Bank predicts that poverty will gradually drop to 18.7 per cent ...

As housing becomes increasingly costly, over 1 million Americans live without running water, even in affluent cities, new research shows. A paper published in the journal Nature Cities documents ...