An ad hoc committee will analyze the evidence on key determinants of entrenched poverty and the effectiveness of programs designed to address those determinants to identify policies and programs with ...

New York is the only state with a refundable child tax credit that excludes low-income families from accessing the maximum amount, limiting its anti-poverty effect, experts say. If the governor’s ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Local officials and advocacy organizations expressed their support on Wednesday for recommendations from the state’s Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council. The council’s goal is ...

After three straight years of missing growth targets under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., economists said the government is now facing steeper odds of meeting its poverty reduction goals by 2028. The ...

New Congressional Budget Office figures last week indicate that the reconciliation bill passed by the House and under review in the Senate would reduce annual income among the poorest households by $1 ...

Nolvia M. is a pulperia and carniceria owner in Honduras. To grow her business, she joined a microfinance program with a grant partner of San Diego-Based Women’s Empowerment International. Photo ...

First published in Revista Summa, El Heraldo, El Capital Financiero and Prensa Libre. Poverty remains a harsh reality for millions of people in Central America and the Dominican Republic. Despite the ...

Entrepreneurship serves a critical and essential role in reducing poverty and creating wealth. It fosters economic growth by cultivating innovation and job creation. Entrepreneurial ventures create ...

A new report by Columbia University researchers and the Robin Hood Foundation shows that between 2021 and 2022, the share of New Yorkers living in poverty — defined as income plus benefits that don’t ...

If you want to protect wildlife in developing countries, the conventional wisdom has long been that you put the animals in a well-run reserve and safeguard it like it were a prison, keeping the ...

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 ...