Structural poverty refers to an expected poverty status based on the relationship between the assets people own—bicycles, cars, land, livestock, businesses—and the income they generate. A focus on ...

Mar. 14—TRAVERSE CITY — A new report shines a revealing spotlight on poverty in the mitten state — and the million-plus Michigan families and children struggling to survive at the bottom. The report ...

A study reveals that household and community poverty may influence brain health in children. Childhood obesity and lower cognitive function may explain, at least partially, poverty's influence on the ...

Last spring, Ciera Pritchett watched her life fall apart. As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- Improving the narrative around poverty in the United States and promoting a better understanding of structural inequity is the focus of an upcoming University of Michigan virtual ...

As a nation, obviously, there are so many things we can do better. There always will be. Yet, what the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made all too apparent is how we have not appropriately dealt ...

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 ...

Despite nearly three years of sweeping economic reforms by the Federal Government, about 79 per cent of Nigerians remain poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty, highlighting the country’s ...

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that growing up in poverty may influence the wiring of a child's brain. The study, published June 27 in JAMA Network ...