Early each morning he would walk out and sketch a few new subjects every day before breakfast. He would add quick notes pencilled in shorthand, using the ‘Gurney’ system learnt from his father, a ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2024 – At today’s feeble pace, it could take more than a century to eliminate poverty as it is defined for nearly half the world – people who live on less than $6.85 per day, ...

One does not have to be a social scientist to recognize the plausibility of a new study in the journal Nature that found that poor kids with wealthier friends wind up better off themselves. “Wealthy ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. A mother and son living in a Walmart parking lot in North Dakota in 2012.Credit...Eugene Richards Supported by ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

The number of children living in poverty in the United States more than doubled in 2022, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12, the biggest increase since it began ...