Child poverty is growing in Olmsted County, and the Rochester Diversity Council wants to find out what can be done about it. The council has scheduled a public meeting entitled "The State of Poverty ...

In Cleveland today, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan devoted an entire speech to a topic President Obama has largely avoided in this campaign: poverty. While the GOP team has routinely ...

In 2024, poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) fell to its lowest level this century, with one in four people living below the upper-middle-income-country poverty line of US$8.30 per person ...

Nearly a third of LAC's population lives with less than $8.30 per day (2021 PPP), while just over a third are considered middle class. This dashboard presents the trends in the poverty rate, the ...

Partial Order Theory offers a powerful mathematical framework to compare objects when complete numerical aggregation is either impractical or misleading. In the context of multidimensional poverty ...