Mapping Poverty to Save More Than a Billion Lives in the World's Most Remote Slums Oct 29, 2017 at 3:09 PM EDT ...

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to mapping poverty that could help policymakers identify the neediest people in ...

It's no secret in Alabama that school performance and poverty are closely linked, a point driven home Thursday by the release of the state's first school and district report cards in 17 years. It ...

Between 2006 and 2013, the number of students in high-poverty school districts — in which more than 20 percent of children live below the federal poverty line — increased from 15.9 million to ...

Adding to an already overwhelming global poverty crisis, the pandemic increased the need for humanitarian aid distribution. In December, the UN appealed for $35 billion to be allotted to the 160 ...

Researchers have developed a new mapping technique that harnesses big data to help the world’s most vulnerable people.

A map shows the places with the highest concentration of U.S. households without access to running water. Plumbing poverty is closely connected to other forms of poverty, such as inadequate housing.

The South looks in rough shape on national maps of many kinds — maps of life expectancy, single-parent families and households without bank accounts. The South is where poor children have the ...

While some counties saw their poverty rates increase only slightly, and some even saw them drop, the number of people under the poverty line in Oregon’s Malheur County doubled to nearly two ...

The growth of student poverty, particularly in southwest Springfield, is creating new challenges for the school district.