The number of people unable to afford a standard living decreased last year, but relative poverty among single-parent families and absolute poverty both increased. Relative poverty refers to a ...

Türkiye’s relative poverty rate declined to 13.0% in 2025, according to the latest Income and Living Conditions Survey ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

On Tuesday the Census Bureau is scheduled to release income and poverty statistics for 2022. It’s safe to say that the report will be hard to interpret. Last year, the two poverty measures released by ...

Ladywell, in Birmingham, has the highest levels, with 62% of children living in relative poverty. In some areas of Leeds, ...

Part 2 of a series explaining how, evidence to the contrary, most Americans, most journalists and most policymakers believe the U.S. retirement system is failing. Drawn from The Real Retirement Crisis ...

A review by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) revised several years of poverty statistics: there was a year when the number of people living at risk of poverty jumped by more than 150,000 ...