In Europe, where you start in life still largely shapes where you end up. Yet, European policies too often fail to address the structural barriers that lock young people into disadvantage. Without ...

Debt is not just a math problem for low income households, it is a form of financial gravity that pulls people deeper every time they try to climb out. I see the same ten forces repeating across ...

Previous research suggests that economy-wide poverty traps are rarely observed in the data. In this paper, we explore a related hypothesis: low-income countries rarely improve their position relative ...

Matt Bruenig, a writer at the think tank Demos, has a very interesting theory about poverty. He points out that poverty declines as people age. Much of it is simply due to the life cycle of earnings - ...

Within the context of insurance, I have experimented with different models of micro-insurance and have even established a thriving microfinance bank. Let me delve a little further into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Did you know that nearly half of the world's population survives on less than $6.85 a day? That ...

Over 37.9 million Americans currently live below the poverty line. With more than 11 percent of the American population struggling to afford basic necessities like food, housing, and healthcare, it is ...

Susan St John is affiliated with the Child Poverty Action Group. With a National-led coalition government taking shape (how long it takes is another matter), the nation’s “squeezed middle” awaits the ...