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In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more ...

In recent decades, Cherokee Nation has continued to prosper in cultural preservation, health care and economic development by leaps and bounds. Although poverty rates decline year over year in tribal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aisha Nyandoro is a leading voice on equitable economic policies. A recent AP-NORC poll reveals a pervasive misunderstanding about ...

Mayor Mary Sheffield is reshuffling city departments and has created new positions to tackle poverty and homelessness in the ...

Poverty rates remain especially high among Arab and haredi populations, who together account for 65.1% of people in poverty, nearly double their share of the population.

The land of the free is suffering from a "self-inflicted" injustice when it comes to poverty, experts say, as the rich are getting richer while thousands living without sufficient means die every year ...

In January, it will be sixty years since Lyndon Johnson, in his first State of the Union address, announced an “unconditional war on poverty.” Johnson’s goal was to eliminate acute economic need among ...

However, Trump leaves out that his opponent, President Joe Biden, saw both of those record lows surpassed on his watch. As President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump vie for Black voters’ ...

Poverty in the Philippines is neither a mystery, nor an accident. And certainly, it is not what the poor want for themselves ...

The proportion of Filipino families who consider themselves poor dramatically decreased to 37%, or an estimated 9.8 million ...

To continue growing the middle class, Congress and the Biden administration should learn from what worked in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated recession that led to ...