You Searched For "Poverty" and got 20 results
Sort By:
7 mins read
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
5 mins read
Meet a couple with 5 kids who are barely making it despite working 4 jobs: 'It shocks me that $100k feels like poverty'
April Schultz and her husband earn a gross income of $130,000, but it's not enough for their family…
Noah Sheidlower
3 mins read
A Gen Xer who barely lives above the poverty line sells plasma to cover her rent because she doesn't qualify for government assistance: 'There's a lot of praying and just hanging on.'
Lisa Kelley, 47, lives just above the poverty line but can't qualify for government assistance, so …
Allie Kelly
3 mins read
The extravagant Ambani pre-wedding party was an affront to the millions of Indians in poverty, critics say
The pre-wedding events for Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant, which featured Rihanna, show a blatan…
Joshua Zitser,Spriha Srivastava
2 mins read
NYC has the highest concentration of millionaires worldwide. 25% of its children live in poverty, report says.
Poverty in New York City surged by half a million between 2021 and 2022, bringing the total number …
Katie Balevic
3 mins read
A boomer couple lives on Social Security and receives $23 a month from SNAP for food: 'How are we to survive?'
Mary Dacus and her husband live paycheck to paycheck on their Social Security income. They struggle…
Allie Kelly
4 mins read
A DC basic income program is letting people choose the amount on their checks. A participant said $1,400 a month is what she needs to pay medical bills.
Deborah Ogarro Kelly, 47, receives $1,400 a month from a Washington DC basic income program. She us…
Allie Kelly
6 mins read
The big lie about sleep
When it comes to slumber, what matters most is how rich you are.
Jeremy Ney
4 mins read
Living on $25,000: ALICEs who live paycheck to paycheck explain how they scrape together enough food to get by
Many households living paycheck to paycheck have to rely on thinly-stretched grocery budgets, food …
Allie Kelly
6 mins read
Stuck in a hellish loop: ALICE parents explain how they never have enough money to give their kids the life they want
BI talked to 7 ALICE parents nationally who said they're making sacrifices so their children can ea…
Noah Sheidlower,Juliana Kaplan
3 mins read
A year after a single mom stopped getting $500 a month through Chicago's basic income program, she's still holding down an apartment and making ends meet: 'It was every single thing that I prayed for.'
Chicago announced plans to relaunch its basic income program. A past participant shares how $500 a …
Allie Kelly
4 mins read
How to know if you're an ALICE: You're barely paying your bills but don't qualify for government assistance
ALICE families look differently depending on their circumstances. They could live off $130,000 for…
Allie Kelly,Noah Sheidlower,Juliana Kaplan
3 mins read
Here's how much you have to make across the country just to get by
In some counties, a family of two adults with two younger children needs to make over six figures t…
Juliana Kaplan,Noah Sheidlower
2 mins read
Massachusetts' millionaire tax is earning more than expected and could help make up for the last few years of high earners fleeing the state
The millionaires tax in Massachusetts beat estimates by bringing in $1.8 billion so far, helping th…
Cork Gaines
7 mins read
Over 100 basic-income pilots have run in US cities. Now states are getting creative to fund no-strings-attached cash payments.
The success of over 100 local GBI pilots in the US provides insight into future state-level policy.
Allie Kelly
3 mins read
Conservatives are fighting guaranteed basic income programs using a surprising argument: They aren't universal
Conservatives groups are attacking guaranteed basic income programs for being discriminatory.
Kenneth Niemeyer,Katie Balevic,Peter Gelling
1 min read
Wealth inequality and 'billionaire supremacy' have gotten so bad that at this rate, it will take 230 years to end poverty
Oxfam International said top billionaires have become $3.3 trillion richer since 2020. Meanwhile, 6…
Katie Balevic
3 mins read
Don't call them DINKs. Many childfree adults are ALICEs.
Half of Americans living in deep poverty are childfree adults because it's harder to access certain…
Allie Kelly
4 mins read
Arizona is a cautionary tale for school vouchers as a wave of states are giving parents cash to send their kids to private school
A new Brookings report found Arizona's universal education savings accounts are primarily going to …
Ayelet Sheffey
2 mins read
After eliminating extreme poverty, India now eligible to move to a higher poverty line: report
The report finds growth in per capita consumption, a decline in urban and rural inequality and a dr…