Data-Driven, Place-Based Research to Provide a Holistic Understanding of Youth Violence in Dallas ...

Over several months this year, the prominent sociologist Loïc Wacquant’s 2022 monograph The Invention of the “Underclass": A ...

But in reality, making that journey from poverty to upper middle class is still very rare. It takes both hard work and luck. We talked to Kent Bausman, professor of sociology at Maryville University ...

Situational poverty is a type of poverty that occurs due to a sudden change in circumstances such as a major life event or natural disaster. If you’re in the grip of a situation like this, it can feel ...

She offered the Sociology of AIDS and Sociology of Poverty, she told The Inquirer in 1991, because her students were also voters and volunteers, and she, through their actions, could affect public ...

More questionable is that about 11.1 percent of Americans live in poverty despite this national wealth. However, the acceptance that poverty for some is an unfortunate consequence of free markets ...

India is among the top five countries with the largest populations in poverty, as reported by the UN. The report indicates that 1.1 billion people globally live in acute poverty, with half being ...

But I hadn't dealt with one of the most significant factors underlying my hoarding instincts: poverty mentality. Seventeen years later, I had to confront this issue to create a comfortable living ...

In the following article, Ritwika Patgiri analyses the debates around poverty estimates in India.) The extreme poverty level in India declined from 431 million in 1990 to almost 129 million in 2024, ...

(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are ...

Poverty in India is a complex and multifaceted issue influenced by a combination of historical, economic, social, and political factors. Several renowned economists and leaders have provided ...

This 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report overlays violent conflict data with multidimensional poverty data to better understand their interlinkages across countries and over time.