A new report by researchers at Stanford and Harvard finds that while the average U.S. student still lags behind pre-pandemic ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared ... The poorest have also suffered disproportionate losses in health and ...

Oklahoma ranks as the eighth lowest life expectancy in the nation, part of a trend that covers ... are rated high in poverty, ...

Context plays a more important role than endowments (such as, education level) in explaining the inability of the persistently poor to escape poverty.

However, as a teenager, it all changed when he realised that the only way of getting out of poverty was by getting a good education. The 45-year-old, who is a principal assistant secretary of the ...