Poverty led to social problems across America. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr blamed poverty as a cause of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1965.

Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for ...

The decline in extreme poverty was largely fueled by the rapid advances in two regions – East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia –specifically in China, Indonesia, and India. In 60 of 83 countries ...

This clip could be used to illustrate socio-economic issues within the USA. In the clip, Alvin says “Poverty could decrease if people stopped being lazy.” Encourage students to discuss their ...

The Center for American Progress Task Force on Poverty outlines 12 key steps for cutting poverty in half in the next 10 years. Thirty-seven million Americans live below the official poverty line.

President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty over 50 years ago — and while poverty has never been completely eliminated in the United States, it has become markedly less common in recent years.

For example, in 1979, households living below the poverty line earned 60% of their income from employment wages. By 2021, this figure had dropped dramatically to just 25%, illustrating a ...

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day The target of reducing extreme poverty rates ... 62 per cent in 1991 to 60 per cent in 2015, with ...