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This year, more than 10 cities across the country will experiment with a policy called guaranteed income. The gist: Cities can help their poorest residents by giving them no-strings-attached cash ...

The Mexican government on Friday claimed that for the first time in history more  Mexicans are categorized as middle class ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Teresa Ghilarducci Ph.D. is an Economics Professor. With the regularity of Halley’s comet, but more frequent occurrences, the ...

Learn how to use the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), the interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared ...

In September 2015, 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed themselves to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are ...

Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

Elon Musk has sparked controversy with his assertion that AI and robotics will eradicate poverty and lead to universal high ...

Mona Andrews, Esq, founder and CEO of Stay in the Game, a company changing the lives of women by offering flexible, remote work. As business owners and leaders, it is imperative that we refocus our ...