| | NewCo Shift (registration) | - 14 hours ago | | |
My wife, Adrienne, and I are long-time supporters of unconditional cash giving. From handing $5 to a homeless person on the street in… |
| | The Hill (blog) | - 18 hours ago | | |
OPINION | Recent reports on poverty weren't all good, more work is needed. |
| | The Japan Times | - 16 hours ago | | |
It's hard to read Spa! magazine without feeling that something is dreadfully wrong with Japan. Week after week, it pursues themes that soon grow familiar: hopeless poverty, pointless toil, unrelieved loneliness. In just one issue this month (Sept. 6 ... |
| See realtime coverage | | Mother Jones | - Sep 16, 2016 | | |
Poverty was down in the United States last year and so was the number of Americans without health insurance. Our median household incomes had their best one-year increase ever, topping $56,500—the highest level since 2007, just before the Great ... |
| | Philadelphia magazine | - 5 hours ago | | |
A cycle of poverty has repeated itself. The poor parents of Mattie McQueen, themselves raised in poverty, gave birth to poor progeny. |
| Nearly 50 years ago, a 48-year-old statistician named Mollie Orshansky, later referred to as a “ubiquitous footnote” in the history of counting the poor, was assigned by the Social Security Administration to research how poverty affected children ... |
| Beloit Daily News | - 15 hours ago | | |
BELOIT - In the past eight years the number of children living in poverty has increased in Rock County, although more families have health insurance, according to U.S. |
| | Dallas Morning News | - Sep 16, 2016 | | |
The Dallas metro area saw residents' incomes go up and fewer people in poverty in 2015, compared to the year before. Those numbers, mirroring an upward trend nationally as median household incomes rose for the first time since the great recession, ... |
| | 89.3 KPCC | - Sep 16, 2016 | | |
A new census report made headlines Tuesday touting a 5 percent rise in median income in the US. But that same report contains startling data about children in poverty in America. In California, children make up less than one-quarter of the state's ... |
| See realtime coverage | | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | - Sep 14, 2016 | | |
Mirroring national figures, median income in Wisconsin grew for the first time in eight years, while poverty declined slightly in 2015, according to data released Thursday from the U.S. |
| | KSAT San Antonio | - Sep 16, 2016 | | |
There are now less people living in poverty in the San Antonio-New Braunfels area, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released on Friday. |
| | FIU News | - Sep 16, 2016 | | |
An international relations and economics major, Pierre-Louis says he found the perfect outlet to fight poverty by signing up for a yearlong fellowship with ... |
New data released today by the U.S Census Bureau reveals that more than one in four Kentucky children still live in poverty. The American Community Survey 1-year estimate shows 25.9 percent of Kentucky children lived in poverty in 2015, which was not a ... |
| WJBC News | - 8 hours ago | | |
BLOOMINGTON - There are people facing tough decisions and living in poverty everyday in our community. A poverty simulation event is being held next Thursday at Mt. |
| Columbia Missourian | - Sep 16, 2016 | | |
Almost a quarter of Columbia residents lived below the poverty line in 2015, according to new numbers released on Thursday by the American Community Survey. |
| Belleville News-Democrat | - Sep 16, 2016 | | |
“While we are pleased to see the poverty rate generally moving in the right direction, we can't lose sight of the fact that a staggering number of Illinoisans are still struggling every day to meet their most basic needs,” Amy Terpstra, director of ... |
| See realtime coverage | | Memphis Commercial Appeal | - Sep 15, 2016 | | |
The Shelby County Health Department has completed a study that compares poverty, health, environmental and other factors throughout the county by ZIP code. |
| See realtime coverage | In a country, many are without health care, shelter, clothing, education, training and employment, in the face abject poverty, insurgency and displacement. This shame comes to bear on the whole country and its people as to why this falsehood went on ... |
| | Radio New Zealand | - 12 hours ago | | |
A United Nations committee has challenged the government about the discrimination faced by New Zealand children who are homeless or live in poverty. |
| | The Province | - 2 hours ago | | |
It's not just minimum-wage earners who face the threat of working poverty. Making a dollar or two above the minimum wage is still a poverty wage for a full-time, full-year worker. Even three dollars above the minimum wage barely clears today's poverty ... |
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