Measuring poverty is the first step to delivering support, but it has long been a costly, time-intensive and contentious ...

Kathryn Anne Edwards, Tribune News Service House Republicans released a budget proposal that effectively calls fora $4.5 ...

Readers weigh in on government policies and spending priorities, from City Hall all the way to the White House.

The talk of such dramatic changes to the federal-state program has Mississippi lawmakers concerned – and hesitant to push ...

Millions of people would be pushed into, or deeper into, poverty under Republican proposals that Congress could consider this ...

In dealing with its Black citizens, America has acted not with the faithfulness of God but with the deceit of Laban.

By focusing on treating the symptom, specifically through punishment, we only inflame and exacerbate the core problem, poverty ... and punish folks for being poor. Alternative actions, if ...

The premise is that poor people can enhance their household ... economic challenges of entrepreneurship in the context of poverty. Cultural and institutional factors also play a role.

More than 89 percent of children in Jigawa State are multi-dimensionally poor, with 85.6 percent living in monetary poverty ... Survey at the Government House banquet hall in Dutse.

If the two chambers can solve their differences, a bigger showdown looms. The General Assembly passed a similar bill in 2023 that the state Supreme Court struck down. The justices pointed out in their ...

Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has pledged to support poor and vulnerable ... visit at the Government House in Kaduna, on Saturday. “The fact that the country’s poverty index has been ...

Federal meal programs still waive costs for the state’s poorest children, but nearly 50,000 Pennsylvania kids live in ...