Working-class Brits face genuine hardship, but not the Dickensian destitution that the left seems to imagine.

Data recently published by the Department for Work & Pensions shows that the UK has seen the biggest rise in what’s called ‘absolute poverty’ in 30 years. There are two ways of describing poverty in ...

Last year in the United States, poverty either increased or decreased. Take your pick. The poverty rate rose by the Census Bureau’s narrow, official measure, but it fell by the bureau’s supplementary ...

The next prime minister’s time in office looks set to be dominated by the “terrifying” prospect of the biggest squeeze in living standards for a century, the Resolution Foundation has warned. The ...

We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the official poverty rate ...

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