For this week's Indicators of the Week, Darian is joined by NPR colleagues Jeff Guo and Sydney Lupkin. We get into the the latest numbers on child poverty in the U.S. and what it tells us about ...

Poverty is multidimensional. An individual or household experiencing poverty can suffer multiple disadvantages at the same time. Beyond the inability to afford basic needs, poverty can also mean ...

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 5 (UPI) --Income-based poverty in Argentina fell to 36.3% of the population in the third quarter of this year, down from 45.6% in the same period in 2024, according to a report from ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

The poverty rate in France has hit a record high, with close to 10 million people living below the monetary poverty threshold in 2023, according to new figures from the French statistics bureau INSEE.

Work is essential in people's lives for self-fulfilment and to achieve a good quality of life. But having a job is sometimes not enough to avoid falling into poverty. This is especially true for ...

A TARGETED €480 yearly payment would help households across Ireland exit energy poverty, a study has found. It said around 14 ...

The government is developing a national indicator to measure “extreme poverty”, as it aims to eradicate the same for the entire population of the country by 2030, the statistics ministry has said. The ...

Lagos is Nigeria’s economic powerhouse, but it has some of the worst slums in the country. Lagos slums are characterised by high levels of poverty – the state of not having enough resources to meet ...