Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

Even when we acknowledge that extreme poverty exists in this country ... imagining it to be only in regions of the country or neighborhoods that are safely removed from our own.

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.

The COVID-19 crisis has led to the first rise in extreme poverty and food insecurity in 20 years. Is it realistic to end these two scourges once and for all? Ahead of the Commission for Social ...