In recognition of Poverty Awareness Month, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces a new campaign, Poverty Is Not a Line.

The SPLC campaign intends to reshape narratives about poverty by exposing misinformation and helping communities root out ...

Poverty isn’t just a statistic, but a complicated web of challenges encountered by millions worldwide. Yet, it’s often ...

The global fight against extreme poverty has stalled for a second consecutive year, according to the 2025 Fordham Pope Francis Global Poverty Report, which tracks access to seven basic human needs ...

Five years ago, around 650 million people lived in poverty across the globe. Today, that number has climbed to more than 800 million. In other words, one out of every ten people on Earth still ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

The core mission of the World Bank is a world free of poverty on a livable planet. Measuring poverty on a regular basis using timely and relevant data is critical to tracking progress toward this goal ...

As a volunteer with The Borgen Project, I’ve come to understand that poverty is not confined by borders. While it’s easy to focus on the challenges we see in our own communities, the reality is that ...

More than a quarter of the global population still lacks access to seven basic needs identified as fundamental by the late Pope Francis -- with close to 60% living in nations with severe restrictions ...

July 21 (UPI) --Child poverty in Argentina fell by 14 percentage points in the second half of 2024, lifting an estimated 1.7 million children out of income-based poverty, according to a new UNICEF ...