The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. For more than two decades, extreme ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

With one in eight Americans living in poverty, and inequality at record highs, the time for action is now. The report recommends that the United States set a goal of cutting poverty in half over ...

American cities are becoming increasingly divided, with wealth concentrated in certain areas while poverty is entrenched in others, and the housing crisis is not just a supply problem but a moral one ...

I spoke with Karen Dillon, co-author with Clayton Christensen and Efosa Ojomo, of The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations out of Poverty, recently released. She says, “The idea ...

Grinding poverty was the norm for humanity until 1800. It changed with the rise of values like tolerance and respect for individual liberty. Skip to Main Content ...

Poverty, Prosperity and the Minimum Wage. Introduction. Protests by fast-food workers, like these in North Carolina in 2013, spurred the drive of minimum wage increases around the country.

See also: Video: Making the Right Choices for Shared Prosperity by Lauren Santa Cruz and Katie Wright (CAP Action) Read the full report (CAP Action). In 2011 the official poverty rate in the ...

David Frum has an excellent, thought-provoking post on child poverty and economic mobility up at his site FrumForum. It does – and it should – make you question our assumptions about how we ...