Category: US Children Poverty
Project NOW holds conference on poverty and solutions – Quad-City Times
Project NOW held its second-annual “Rooting out Poverty” Conference Thursday, urging communities to “chart a new course” and explore innovative ideas to end poverty. “What if I told you that poverty is unacceptable?,” said Dwight Ford, executive director of Project NOW. “Let’s get to work and roll up our sleeves … If the Quad-Cities starts to mobilize and stand up — tell poverty we comin’.” Thursday’s conference featured three core panels and a keynote speaker during lunch. Project NOW’s second annual Poverty Conference kicks off on Thursday at the Rhythm
Read MorePoverty – statistics & facts – Statista
Over the past decades, poverty reduction around the world has been remarkable. This is especially down to the reduction of poverty in East Asia, where the economic growth of China has contributed to lift millions out of poverty. Despite these positive developments, there are still an estimated 650 million people living on less than 2.15 U.S. dollars a day. In some countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, millions do not have enough income to feed their families. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic drove several millions into unemployment and out of education, and
Read MoreThe austere US safety net for poor, non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive disability benefits … – Brookings Institution
The U.S. safety net has grown significantly stronger for children and elderly adults over the past half century. However, the story is starkly different for non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive Supplemental Security Income disability benefits or Social Security benefits, Robert Greenstein argues in his Hamilton Project paper. In 2017, this group numbered nearly 106 million people, or nearly 33 percent of the U.S. noninstitutionalized population. How the safety net affects poverty among non-elderly childless adults who do not receive disability benefits Using Census data
Read MorePoverty in the United States could reach highest level in over 50 years — Columbia University Center on Poverty and … – Center on Poverty and Social Policy
In our current model, we project that if unemployment rates rise to 30 percent, the annual poverty rate in the United States will increase from 12.4 percent to 18.9 percent. This represents an increase of more than 21 million individuals in poverty and would mark the highest recorded rate of poverty since at least 1967. Even with a quick recovery in employment rates after the summer, we project that the annual poverty rate will reach levels comparable to the Great Recession. Our current projections emphasize the urgent need for the
Read MoreReader’s View: US Senate can lift kids from hunger, homelessness – Duluth News Tribune
Sadly, the U.S. Senate still hasn’t passed the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, even though it could cut child poverty and help 16 million children in families living in poverty, including 194,000 children in Minnesota. In the last month, there has been no progress, even though this bipartisan bill overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House. There is still hope in the Senate, though, which is back in session. Our calls to senators (202-224-3121) can still make a difference. In this presidential election year, some worry about who gets
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