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Forty-two million Americans receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (also known as food stamps). That’s 12% of the population.

Sheffield should consider appointing a poverty czar to affirm lowering those abysmal poverty numbers are her chief mission.

Starmer and the Chancellor Rachel Reeves have hinted they will be getting rid of the controversial policy at the Budget - but ...

The national ‘cost of basic needs’ line places about 21.9pc of the population below the poverty threshold, based on 2018-2019 ...

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40% of the population is obese ...

At the age of 12, Kalpana Saroj, born into a Dalit family, was married and taken away from her schoolbooks. Her new home was ...

The latest numbers available from the U.S. Census Bureau reported Indiana had 816,000 persons in poverty in 2023. That was ...

We study the reasons for rising in-work poverty in the 25 years up to the pandemic.

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