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Nearly a million more children fell into poverty last year. Both presidential campaigns want to give parents money to fix that.
Nearly 10 million children were in poverty in 2023. It could become a key election issue.
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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415 mn Indians lifted out of poverty in India in 15 years: Govt says quoting UNDP
"As per the 'Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022: Unpacking deprivation bundles to reduce…
PTI
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Tech titans love Modi's economic powerhouse India — despite mass unemployment and abject poverty
India is on track to become the world's third-largest economy by 2027, but Narendra Modi faces a pi…
Theron Mohamed
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers' plan to boost the child tax credit for parents would help 'hundreds of thousands of kids get out of poverty,' a top economic official says
Jared Bernstein, a White House top economist, thinks a bipartisan plan to give parents a bolstered …
Ayelet Sheffey,Juliana Kaplan
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Democrats are holding the first hearing in 23 years on a measure to lift the elderly and disabled out of poverty
Democrats want to boost Supplemental Security Income, to lift 3.3 million of the elderly and disabl…
Ayelet Sheffey
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3.3 million people could be lifted out of poverty with a proposal in Democrats' $3.5 trillion social spending bill
The Urban Institute found boosting Supplemental Security Income would cut the poverty rate for low-…
Ayelet Sheffey
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2 homeless TikTok creators say the platform could help lift them out of poverty
Homeless TikTokers Phoenix Black and Raven White live outside in Massachusetts and are unable to af…
Chris Stokel-Walker
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A $15 minimum wage would take 7.6 million people out of poverty, according to a new study
The $15 minimum wage has the president's support, but Democrats still haven't been able to raise pa…
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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A $15 minimum wage would lift millions out of poverty with 'limited negative effects' on aggregate income, Morgan Stanley says
The bank report saw "substantial" benefits from lifting millions out of poverty via an increased mi…
Juliana Kaplan
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One billionaire was minted every 30 hours during the pandemic. Now, a million people may fall into extreme poverty every 33 hours, Oxfam estimates.
In 2021, China minted 62 new billionaires, including Chris Xu, the founder of online fashion giant …
Katie Boon
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Poverty went up in 2020, but stimulus checks and beefed up unemployment benefits were a lifeline for millions of Americans
Stimulus checks lifted 11.7 million people out of poverty in 2020, according to data from the Censu…
Madison Hoff
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Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would lift 900,000 people out of poverty while adding $54 billion to the deficit, CBO report finds
Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would reduce poverty, while also reducing employment and in…
Ayelet Sheffey
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One mind-boggling chart shows how government stimulus cut poverty by nearly half during the pandemic
New research from the Urban Institute credits stimulus checks, federal unemployment benefits, and b…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Madison …
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A basic-income pilot in Florida will give formerly incarcerated people $600 per month for a year, no strings attached
Formerly incarcerated people in Florida will receive $1,000 in January 2022, then $600 per month as…
Aria Bendix
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A Venezuelan ring is accused of stealing over $800,000 worth of stimulus checks during the pandemic
Federal officials have so far charged one Venezuelan in Florida with identity theft and conspiring …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Sending 4th and 5th stimulus checks could keep 12 million Americans out of poverty, report finds
The Economic Security Project found that stimulus checks are faster and more impactful for lifting …
Ayelet Sheffey
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COVID-19 pushes additional 150 million children into poverty, says UNICEF analysis
This means that an additional 150 million children have been plunged into poverty since the pandemi…
PTI
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Democrats boast that their checks to parents pulled millions of children from poverty. But the program expired last year, erasing gains
The extended child tax credit lapsed in December. Some Democratic aides acknowledged it was hard to…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Kayla Ep…
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Madagascar hands out 'miracle' virus cure as it lifts lockdown
"One infusion goes into four litres of water," said Rabefarihy, repeating the instructions. "Two c…
PTI
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Communist China has 104 billionaires leading the country while Xi Jinping promises to lift millions out of poverty
The billionaires includes the founder of one of China's biggest online retailers JD.com, the CEO of…