The World Bank’s 2025 update shows that poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean has dropped to a historic low of 25.2 ...

Child poverty in Arkansas increased to 14% between 2022 and 2024, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT ...

Children living in poverty in Arkansas was 14.5% in the 2022-2024 period, up from 8.9% between 2019-2021, according to a new ...

What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss -- so much so that their elected officials have shut down the ...

What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss — so much so that their elected officials have shut down the ...

The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act—enacted to help people weather the financial insecurity of the pandemic— enhanced the PTCs ...

This analysis estimates the impact of the loss of enhanced premium tax credits (ePTC) for marketplace coverage on community ...

Americans over 60 are having financial trouble meeting their basic needs. For the lowest earners, that can spell an earlier death, a new report found.

According to the Bank’s analysis on growth incidence curves (GICs), "average consumption levels fell by 6.7 percent between 2019 and 2023, largely as a result of pre-2023 policy missteps and external ...

Wealth has long been tied to longevity in the U.S. and other countries, but a new analysis helps quantify the gap between how long low-income older Americans and their more affluent peers tend to live ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The GOP falsely claims that subsidies fund “free healthcare” for undocumented immigrants, though they are not ...