Adding to an already overwhelming global poverty crisis, the pandemic increased the need for humanitarian aid distribution. In December, the UN appealed for $35 billion to be allotted to the 160 ...

For years, policymakers have relied upon surveys and census data to track and respond to extreme poverty. While effective, assembling this information is costly and time-consuming, and it often lacks ...

The idea of a Water Poverty Index (WPI) with a numerical value was formulated by scientists in an effort to express the complex relationship between sustainable water resource management and poverty ...

Despite economic gains and recovery, poverty in North Carolina either remained the same or increased from 2007 through 2013, according to a report from the Budget & Tax Center, part of the NC Justice ...

A team from the Complexity Science Hub and Central European University developed poverty maps of Sierra Leone and Uganda which visually identify poor areas with greater accuracy [Vienna, May 25 2023] ...

Some states are having difficulty shaking off high poverty rates, a new study suggests. Between 1989 and 2019, 19.4 million people lived in areas of persistent poverty, according to a report by the US ...

Members of the California Poor People’s Campaign march on F Street near downtown Fresno to raise awareness on poverty in this April 2019 file photo. Across Fresno, Kings, Madera, Merced and Tulare ...

We begin by providing a brief review of the poverty mapping literature that dates back to early 2000s. In a nutshell, estimates of poverty at the small area level are obtained by predicting household ...

The U.S. Census Bureau released updated estimates of poverty for every school district in the nation recently. The estimates are for the 2020 calendar year. The map below shows each of Pennsylvania’s ...

Suburbs, once considered by many to be a retreat from poor economic and social conditions in cities, are home to nearly one-third of our nation’s poor—and rising. The suburbs were once considered by ...