NEW YORK (AP) — The dramatic lurch of hundreds of millions of people from poverty since the millennium began has not resulted in a truly global middle class, a new report says. Instead, the ...

Lawmakers are pushing for a new course for middle and high schools centered on finishing high school, getting a full-time job ...

A SUNY Cortland communication studies class will offer its interpretation of poverty in Cortland County with a gallery of mobile photography on Thursday, April 26, at the Blue Frog Café and Music Club ...

Among the most notorious consequences of the covid-19 pandemic are changes in the economy at the macro and micro levels. A new study from the Pew Research Center, based on data from the World Bank, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A new book looks to redefine how people see poverty. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, the co-author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American ...

The city’s teachers union is challenging assertions that needier children benefit least from a new state law imposing class-size limits amid fears that the city will try to dodge its responsibility to ...

Mr. Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, is the director of its Eviction Lab and the author of “Poverty, by America” and “Evicted.” The United States has a poverty problem. A third of the country’s ...