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 ...

When Black people were the face of drug abuse, it was a crack epidemic. A shocking but logical consequence of Black people ...

Seven years out from needing to use food stamps, and it’s interesting what still triggers that dreaded feeling of humiliation that consumed my life back then. Yet I always feel it when I use a ...

When I read the response of the Federal Government to last week’s International Monetary Fund report warning Nigeria over the implications of a high inflation rate and the slow impact of the economic ...

Students with grumbling stomachs lined up outside of Pima Residence Hall on Wednesday night to learn their fate at the 16th annual Hunger Banquet. The students had fasted for 30 hours to simulate ...

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, ...

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 ...

No, this isn’t about all the rapidly changing dynamics of the Presidential race. My question is what has happened to the traditional Democratic Party platform? For decades Democrats have focused on ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that cross-class connections are key to lifting children out of poverty. Behind the research is Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University and director of Opportunity ...