Opinion: Breaking the cycle of concentrated poverty. Call to action for Connecticut.
Concentrated poverty is when the majority of people in one neighborhood or area are surviving off of a poverty level income, ...
The Day27 天
Poverty devours Connecticut, but who will ask its cause?
Such news reports indicating worsening poverty and social disintegration in Connecticut may be dismissed as anecdotal or sensationalist. But last week the state's United Way organization published ...
United Way: Nearly 40% of CT households faced poverty in 2022
Nearly two out of five Connecticut households lacked the income to cover a realistic survival budget in 2022, the United Way ...
来自MSN20 天
Report: CT poverty, child poverty rising from various factors
A new report re-examines how to measure Connecticut's poverty rates. Some findings show Supplemental Poverty Measure-based rates rose more than 12% in 2022 from nearly 8.5% in 2021. Child poverty ...
Hartford Business5 年
New data: CT only state to see poverty rate rise in 2018 | Hartford Business Journal
The percentage of Connecticut residents with incomes below the poverty line ticked up above 10 percent last year, the only statistically significant increase in the country, according to the U.S ...
Republican-American6 天
Nonprofits say poor in Connecticut missed $120 million in tax relief
By Keith M. Phaneuf | ctmirror.org Like many single parents, Sarah Desenclos struggles at times to make ends meet. The ...
World Bank4 年
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018
The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...
Republican-American29 天
Poverty devours Connecticut but who will ask its cause?
Rising homelessness. Growing demand at food and diaper banks. Chronic absenteeism at schools. Brawls at high school football games. Schools closed by threats of violence. Street takeovers and car ...
World Bank2 个月
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022
The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...
International Monetary Fund8 年
Rural Poverty in Developing Countries
This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 00/78 "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened version are provided in ...
Wildfire Grows in New Jersey and New York, Despite Modest Rainfall
The Jennings Creek fire is currently burning across 3,500 acres, officials said, and is expected to grow to over 5,000 acres.
scmp.com2 年
Explainer: One-fifth of Hongkongers live in poverty. Here’s what you need to know
Hong Kong released its annual Poverty Situation Report for 2020 last week, and the results were dire: roughly one in five Hongkongers, or 1.65 million people, are living in poverty – the highest ...