Infosys Co-Founder N R Narayana Murthy on Wednesday said job creation by innovative entrepreneurs, and not freebies, will help eliminate poverty. Speaking at the Tiecon Mumbai 2025 event here, Murthy ...

Nobel Laureate and economist Prof Abhijit Banerjee on Monday said that the solution to a complex problem like poverty comes from ground-level experiments and micro-level policy reforms. Delivering a ...

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The expansion of the child tax credits under the American Rescue Plan halved child poverty. When the policy ended, child poverty shot back up. This year, 11 states either created a state-level child ...

Recent pilot programs for guaranteed income, or direct and recurring cash payments, are improving the daily lives of hard-working Americans across the nation. Lucile O’Quinn in Saint Paul, Minn., used ...

Multiple converging crises are undermining social progress around the world, hitting the most vulnerable people and societies the hardest. This must be a critical wake-up call for global action. The ...

As Congress debates major tax reforms, a proven anti-poverty tool hangs in the balance: the child tax credit. This credit reduces a family’s tax bill by up to $2,000 per child, but its current ...

America excels at innovation. We’ve developed solutions, both intricate and simple, for a range of complex problems. Though we are leaders in technology, medicine, and entrepreneurship, we’ve ...

"It was a vicious circle I could not escape," says the 25-year-old villager in the Bondo region of western Kenya. Her hardscrabble, rural existence is the same for many in Siaya County where people ...

California officials representing some of the wealthiest cities in the world traveled to one of the poorest villages in Africa this week to study universal basic income, a poverty solution they hope ...

The sad truth is that in this country today, 37 million people, half of whom are younger than you and me, wake up each and every day in poverty. There are communities across this great nation, like ...