Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. The Cobb chapter of a nonprofit focused on ending poverty is set to graduate its second cohort of participants from a poverty reduction program ...

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty,” and since then, federal spending on anti-poverty initiatives has steadily ballooned. The federal government now devotes ...

Mahagani Jenkins appreciated the extra money—it just wasn’t enough. For an on-and-off six months, she was a participant in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, known as TANF, receiving ...

A 2024 report outlines economic insecurity in Franklin County. A new program launched Wednesday promising 32 single moms living below the poverty line $500 a month for a year, no strings attached. The ...

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Early in my career, I spent a year working in two refugee camps in southern Mexico, home to indigenous Guatemalans who had escaped the genocide taking place in their homeland a short walk across the ...

This week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its annual hunger report, which monitors global food deprivation and security. According to FAO estimates, chronic ...

HOW we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s “capability approach” in the 1980s broadened the concept, viewing poverty not just ...