C. Nicole Mason is a political scientist and the executive director of the Women of Color Policy Network at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She wrote this for ...

A five-day seminar on advanced poverty measurement and analysis took place at the Four Points by Sheraton Dar es Salaam New Africa Hotel from June 10-14, 2024. The event was targeted at researchers, ...

(Boston—Tuberculosis (TB) has long been recognized as a disease of poverty, yet most TB research does not measure poverty in a meaningful way. A new review in the journal BMC Global and Public Health ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

Oregon State University researchers have developed a new method of measuring poverty across Oregon. The researchers say their method measures the impact of social safety programs on poverty. It also ...

The plurality of the official poverty estimates in Italy covers both absolute and relative approaches, ranges from consumption to income-based measures, follows different methodologies and uses ...

July 13 (UPI) --In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared war on poverty: "The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it," he told Congress in his first State of the Union address. "We ...

The world has an ambitious goal to end extreme poverty by 2030. But, without good poverty data, it is impossible to know whether we are making progress, or whether programs and policies are reaching ...

Empirical research requires good data to complement statistical rigor in providing answers to global poverty questions. Poor data quality can lead to biases in causal inference, lower the probability ...

On Thursday, workers who are paid the federal minimum wage got a little salary boost. As the second of a three-step increase that will take the nation's minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, this week's ...