California has morphed from a state with high economic and social mobility to one of relatively rigid classes defined by ethnicity, income and wealth.

California went from being a state with high economic mobility and opportunity to a society starkly separated by wealth, ...

Financial hardship often comes with hidden costs, forcing low-income individuals to pay more for essential services that the ...

With over a fourth (26.6%) of its population living below the national poverty line, Barisal currently has the highest poverty rate among all divisions in the country. In Rangpur and Mymensingh ...

Why is it that in the one of the richest countries in the world, falling sick means being pushed into poverty pay?

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country's per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65. This ...

The data, derived from Nigeria’s most recent nationally representative surveys, show that while 41.3 per cent of the urban population lives below the poverty line, the figure for rural Nigeria ...

s Indonesia progresses toward upper-middle-income status, one critical metric remains stuck in the past: Our poverty line. For over two decades, Indonesia has relied on a threshold set by ...

These estimates are based on its $2.15-per-day poverty line used to measure extreme poverty. These numbers differ from the World Bank’s estimates of poverty using the same $2.15 poverty line on ...

Back to the World Bank. Its global poverty line is well known: $2.15 a day in PPP terms, based on the median national poverty line of 28 low-income countries. India has almost ended poverty based ...