Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Chile on February 3, 2025 and endorsed the staff appraisal without a meeting on a lapse-of-time ...

Three under–the–radar stories from the Americas highlight Haiti’s election struggles, Chile’s new biodiversity park, and ...

Families in some Hagerstown neighborhoods are getting relief from the state of Maryland to help them buy homes. Nonprofits in ...

Child poverty rates vary drastically worldwide, from under 10% in Nordic countries to over 35% in Colombia. Explore the data, causes, and solutions to this urgent global issue.

Chile’s Congress gave its final approval to a reform that will boost pensions for current and future retirees, handing ...

In Davos, politicians and people from the business world discussed the fight against poverty. In fact, such conferences are completely pointless in the fight against poverty. In his speech, Javier Mil ...

The official rate of Canadians 65 and older living in poverty is six per cent. But the number could be more than double that, new research warns.

But poverty is also an outcome of economic ... and many poor people have benefited from these reforms. Case studies of Chile, China, Ghana, Uganda, and Vietnam show that reforms have helped raise ...

Rep. Mikie Sherrill wants to recalculate the federal poverty line to reflect states’ varying costs of living so that struggling residents in high-cost states like New Jersey don’t lose out on ...

Investopedia / Daniel Fishel The federal poverty level (FPL) is an economic measure used to decide whether the income level of an individual or family qualifies them for certain federal benefits ...