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It was 2016 when Christiane Kraetsch's life slowly began to fall apart. Kraetsch, 65, used to work as an educator at ...

If you’re already receiving or about to receive Social Security, a typical monthly benefit check of $2,000 could drop to ...

Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned the Government must act now on the two-child benefit limit and said he's ...

Former Marine turned monk Doug Lynam spent 20 years in poverty before becoming a financial advisor. Here's what he learned ...

The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2018 edition — Piecing Together ...

Some children are living in "Dickensian" levels of poverty, according to England's children's commissioner. In a report published on Tuesday, Dame Rachel de Souza said children have described ...

The share of children in poverty fell by nearly half in 2021, thanks mainly to a one-year enhancement of the enhanced child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Some 5.2% ...

Community members and leaders gathered on Tuesday to advocate for a higher living wage, housing security, and the ...

“A crisis is building,” said Rep. Will Wade, R-Dawsonville, a member of the committee. Wade and fellow lawmakers heard that reasons as obvious as uncorrected vision and illness are driving absenteeism ...

Raising taxes on online casinos, as well as slots and gaming machines, could raise enough money to scrap the two-child benefit cap, a thinktank says.

Feb. 21, 2013 -- Latinos are anything but homogenous, a fact underscored by a new Census Bureau report that shows a significant variance in poverty rates among different subgroups of Hispanics.