Poverty isn’t just a matter of small incomes, as sociologist Matthew Desmond notes in his landmark 2023 book “Poverty, By ...

In the Bible, Jesus traveled around Galilee and Judea preaching the good news to underserved communities. He was often surrounded by those of meager means and in one story, he fed a crowd of some ...

The Jackson anti-poverty task force met for its first meeting and left with a question that will set the agenda for the committee going forward, and that's how to define poverty. "Poverty is the state ...

A School of Social Work faculty member is helping redefine the country’s definition of being poor with research that shows the dramatic difference between achieving “basic economic security” and the ...

Since 1963, the United States has been measuring what percentage of its population is in poverty. But it hasn't changed the way it measures poverty since 1963, either. Outside of annual adjustments ...

There are many synonyms for the word “poverty.” Used as a noun, it can mean scarcity, shortage, insufficiency, hardship, destitution, distress, need, deprivation and impoverishment. It is easier to ...

The federal government is looking at new measures to help define poverty. This is the first time in decades that a new definition is being considered. The current measure, which is mainly of food, is ...

Advocates are renewing calls for Australia to adopt a nationally-agreed definition of child poverty, as concerning data shows ...

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he’d been out of work for nearly two years, in this ...