More than 38 million people live in poverty in the United States—the wealthiest country in the world. Oxfam exposes the realities of life for working poor people and offers pragmatic solutions to ...

Scroll through for some perspective on the shared experiences of poor people. Wait. For everything. Wait for the bus to arrive, because it’s always late. Take longer to travel farther to the ...

Overall, nearly half (45 percent, 47.8 million) of private sector workers in the US lack a single day of paid sick leave ... About 9.1 percent of people in working families lives in poverty and 26.3 ...

Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, he pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging ...

Paycheck-to-paycheck living isn’t just for the working class anymore, according to community finance platform SoLo’s 2025 Cash Poor Report ... finance reporter at USA TODAY.

Of those living in poverty, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than US $1.25 a day. They lack access to proper nutrition, clean drinking water, and adequate health ...

It has often been said that the world’s aggregate poverty gap—the total monetary amount by which all poor people fall below the poverty line—is modest when one uses poverty lines typical of low-income ...

Various conservative politicians and other policymakers espouse the Barbour philosophy that a tax on food is fair and ...