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A $2.30-a-day basic income trial is trying to save the Amazon rainforest
Universal basic income is usually aimed at social or economic benefits. But a $2.30-a-day trial in …
Mia Jankowicz
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Universal basic income: Should the government give ‘unconditional money’ or ‘freebies’ to the poor?
This is where results of the experiment conducted by Sam Altman’s OpenResearch could help shed some…
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415 mn Indians climbed out of poverty between 2006 and 2021: UN report
Just three months after India surpassed China to become the world's most populous nation with 142.8…
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India's rural-urban income gap declines sharply amid fall in poverty level: SBI Report
Along with the sharp decline in poverty in India, there has also been a marked reduction in the rur…
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5 million kids fell into poverty last year after Congress cut off Biden's monthly checks to parents
The expanded child tax credit gave monthly checks to parents and helped pay bills. There were 5 mil…
Madison Hoff
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Low-wage parents can help their kids avoid poverty for decades if they get this one tax credit
Children exposed to the Earned Income Tax Credit at an early age were less likely to be in poverty …
Noah Sheidlower
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Extreme Poverty in India declined 12% in the last decade, says World Bank
Extreme poverty in India is estimated to have declined 12.3 percentage points between 2011 to 2019,…
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From gender inequality to growing hunger, Goalkeepers Report shows how the pandemic and wars derailed our progress towards UN Sustainable Development Goals
Ever since we entered the COVID-19 pandemic era, one crisis after another has hampered our progress…
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Pandemic pushes back Asia Pacific's fight against extreme poverty by 2 years: ADB
Had COVID-19 not struck, Asia Pacific could have brought down extreme poverty to a level achievable…
PTI
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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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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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If you want to balance the budget without raising taxes or cutting defense, Social Security, and Medicare, you'd probably have to fire nearly every park ranger and cut 70% of anti-poverty spending
A CRFB analysis found that it'll take some massive spending cuts to balance the budget without touc…
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey
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Democrats want to bring back Biden's child tax credit soon — and a new report shows it was a huge success in fighting child poverty
Stimulus checks and federal unemployment benefits dented poverty last year, in addition to the mont…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Madison …
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The benefits of Biden's child allowance could be worth 8 times its cost, new report finds
A cost-benefit analysis found that Biden's child tax-credit expansion would cost $100 billion annua…
Ayelet Sheffey
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A fully refundable child tax credit could do more harm than good, experts say. Here's what they mean.
Policy experts argue that a fully refundable child tax credit would do little to address high rates…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Canada's 'beautifully surprising' basic income study shows how business needs to reconsider human nature
Started in 2018, the New Leaf project gave select homeless people in Canada $7,500 no strings attac…
Chris Weller
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By 2021, as many as 150 million people likely to be in extreme poverty due to COVID-19: World Bank
This would represent a regression to the rate of 9.2 per cent in 2017, according to the bienni…
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3.7 million kids slipped back into poverty after the Biden child tax credit expired and Congress isn't restoring it soon
There's little sign the direct payment program will be revived in the near future, given resistance…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Madison …
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COVID-19 could push one-third of Nepal's population below poverty line
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could push nearly one third of Nepal's population below poverty line …
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About 400 million Indians may sink into poverty says International Labour Organization
About 40 crore workers in India working in the informal economy are at risk of falling deeper into …