Uncomfortable truth' The report said people experienced poverty when they did not have enough money or resources to meet ...

Almost half of children in single-parent families in the UK were living in relative poverty at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, new analysis suggests. Some 49% of children in lone-parent ...

LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Welfare cuts announced by Britain on Wednesday will drive 250,000 into relative poverty by the end of the decade and leave millions of families with less cash, according ...

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 107, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 233-254 (22 pages) This paper examines why Canadian poverty rates fell relative to U.S. poverty rates during the periods 1970-1979 ...

FOR LYNDON JOHNSON to wage a successful war on poverty, he first needed to define it. The brainy work was done by Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, who developed ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper analyzes subjective poverty in Hungary and compares it to the objective poverty concepts. Subjective poverty is defined by examining ...

A record number of children in Sefton were living in poverty last year, according to "heartbreaking" new figures. It comes as charities urged the Government to stop planned welfare reform, warning the ...