An obvious outcome of falling income is rising poverty, which is now at an 11-year high, while income inequality stands at a 27-year high. Out of 240 million people, 70 million are living below the ...

Explore whether economics can be considered a science, analyzing its classification, testability, and consensus within social science debates.

Figuring out where you stand financially in retirement is not as simple as looking at your bank balance. Net worth, which is the total of everything you own minus everything you owe, is the real ...

Economic instability and discrimination were associated with higher odds for long COVID among children and adolescents, ...

It's not surprising that costs go up over time, but these 11 everyday essentials that were affordable 10 years ago are so expensive now that the middle class can't afford them anymore.

In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...

In Nusa Tenggara Timur, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is ...

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With the second Trump administration has come a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign economic policy. Washington is imposing tariffs on partners and rivals alike, slashing foreign aid, aggressively ...

Many forecasters and investors misinterpret what is happening in the American economy. Some believe the uncertainty around President Donald Trump’s trade and other economic policies is abating, while ...

On the Thursday, January 8, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: In 2026, many Americans are feeling financially squeezed. With the stubbornly high cost of healthcare and housing, what will it take ...

MINSK, 5 January (BelTA) – Belarus has one of the lowest poverty rates, with the level dropping from 4.8% in 2020 to 3.5% in 2024. Unemployment also reached a record low of 2.6% in January-September ...