poverty

Payphones are borderline extinct in the U.S., but the need for public phone access still exists.

We look at why the unequal "K-shaped" pandemic recovery persists half a decade later, according to professor Peter Atwater.

Pope Leo XIV’s first teaching called on Catholics to engage with and help solve poverty.

This is a sped-up timeline: When Gates started his foundation 25 years ago, he’d been planning for the money to last several decades after his death.

Data doesn’t always show a full picture. Example: Functional unemployment was 23.3% in January — very different than the 4% headline figure.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is focusing on the need to invest in global health in its 2024 Goalkeepers Report.

Despite wage gains, lower-income families have been hit hard by inflation and the expiration of pandemic-era benefits.

They also face workplace discrimination.

The two challenges are interrelated, and a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute says they must be addressed in tandem.

The expiration of pandemic-era government benefits is partially responsible for the increases in poverty.