NEW YORK (AP) — The dramatic lurch of hundreds of millions of people from poverty since the millennium began has not resulted in a truly global middle class, a new report says. Instead, the ...

Seven years out from needing to use food stamps, and it’s interesting what still triggers that dreaded feeling of humiliation that consumed my life back then. Yet I always feel it when I use a ...

Students with grumbling stomachs lined up outside of Pima Residence Hall on Wednesday night to learn their fate at the 16th annual Hunger Banquet. The students had fasted for 30 hours to simulate ...

No, this isn’t about all the rapidly changing dynamics of the Presidential race. My question is what has happened to the traditional Democratic Party platform? For decades Democrats have focused on ...

The city’s teachers union is challenging assertions that needier children benefit least from a new state law imposing class-size limits amid fears that the city will try to dodge its responsibility to ...

A SUNY Cortland communication studies class will offer its interpretation of poverty in Cortland County with a gallery of mobile photography on Thursday, April 26, at the Blue Frog Café and Music Club ...

Among the most notorious consequences of the covid-19 pandemic are changes in the economy at the macro and micro levels. A new study from the Pew Research Center, based on data from the World Bank, ...

A new study reveals that cross-class connections are key to lifting children out of poverty. Behind the research is Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University and director of Opportunity ...

Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty talks about his new research, which used data from over 70 million Facebook accounts. His findings suggest that friendships between people of high and low ...