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Byline: MICHAL PERLMAN, PETR VARMUZA, SAMANTHA BURNS Michal Perlman is a professor of applied psychology and human development at the University of Toronto. Petr Varmuza is a research assistant at [...]

Byline: FREDERICK VETTESE Most middle-income Canadians know they need to save substantially to enjoy a comfortable retirement. The situation is different, however, in the case of low-income households, which Statistics [...]

Mortality rates fell by 20 percent among women in countries that began cash transfer programs to the poor. Children also benefited. The News Cash grants made directly to poor families [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson USA TODAY Low-income households are being hit hardest by inflation because surging food and housing costs make up more of their spending, according to a study by [...]

Byline: Eli Hager Those in Congress who are blocking President Joe Biden's proposed child tax credit - a monthly federal stipend for families with children of up to $300 per [...]

Byline: Rachel Siegel and Andrew Van Dam After 15 years, Jacqueline Rodriguez had almost saved enough for a down payment on a house. Then the pandemic hit. Rodriguez was laid [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Sep. 2A program that could be launched before the end of the year would give a $500 monthly payment to 200 low-income Pittsburgh residents for two years [...]

President Biden's proposal calls for community college to be free for all Americans, which may relieve some of the burdens saddling low-income and working-class college students. After she got divorced [...]

Suriname's vice president, Ronnie Brunswijk, has been many things. Now, he wants to be known as the man who will spread the country's newfound oil wealth equitably. MOENGOTAPOE, Suriname -- [...]

Byline: Mehrsa Baradaran When Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress to advocate for Libra, Facebook's new venture in blockchain currency, he cast it as a way to way to alleviate global [...]

Byline: Tracy Jan More than a quarter of people living in poverty in the U.S. receive no help from food stamps and other nutrition programs, subsidized housing, cash benefits, or [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Jacqueline Watson needed money. Her son had called her that morning from prison, where he is serving a life sentence, to ask her to make a deposit in [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] The proposal was intended to help poor New Yorkers by offering them discount [...]

Byline: David Wallis To stretch her tight budget, Beth Cote Dekis, 61, who describes herself as a disabled woman struggling to save her house, tends to shop at retailers like [...]

Byline: Vidhi Doshi NEW DELHI - It's been nearly three years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his 'Digital India' initiative, pitched as an ambitious program to modernize this country [...]

Byline: Tracy Jan WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's budget proposal, announced Tuesday, calls for the most dramatic cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development since President Ronald Reagan [...]

Byline: David Wallis To stretch her tight budget, Beth Cote Dekis, 61, who describes herself as a disabled woman struggling to save her house, tends to shop at retailers like [...]

2019 JUL 4 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- Researchers detail new data in Science - Political Science. According to news reporting [...]

Byline: Mehrsa Baradaran A public interest lawyer once explained that 'poverty creates an abrasive interface with society; the poor are always bumping into sharp legal things.' Indeed, the poor are [...]

Hari Ravichandran, the CEO and Founder of Jump Ventures, a scalability infusion firm, reported the Ravichandran Foundation donation of $250,000 USD ($330,000 CAD) to benefit Artists for Peace and Justice [...]

Byline: Julie Zauzmer When Carlton White took out a bank loan earlier this year, he didn't get any money. All he got was a debt to pay off. It might [...]

Just about every high-profile politician in the country today says income inequality is a problem. And while those from the center-left to the far right differ on how they would [...]

Alabama Montgomery: A non-profit group has filed a federal court notice contending that the city has violated a federal order to stop unlawfully imprisoning the poor when they are unable [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Kelly Sawyer Patricof does not seem like the kind of woman who would devote her life to diapering the children of the poor. An effervescent former fashion [...]

NEW DELHI -- The latest economic survey of India contains cheerful prose. India's immediate future is ''propitious.'' But there are grim bits, too. If the rich reach the third chapter [...]

ZAGREB, Croatia -- While Greece and Germany tussle over what debt forgiveness might mean, Croatia, the European Union's newest member, is adopting its own approach, offering what it calls a [...]

Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center released a study that found that most wealthy Americans believed ''poor people today have it easy because they can get government benefits without [...]

There's an old saying: It takes money to make money. As it turns out, that adage has a flip side: Not having money costs you money. That's just another of [...]