Is It Too Late for Trump to Support the Iranian Uprising? Audio By Carbonatix Portfolio manager Michael W. Green begins his much-discussed essay in the Free Press: For my whole career in finance, I ...

Total falsehoods: "I want for people to recognize a great job that I've done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down," said President Donald Trump on Monday. (The White House ...

An estimated 417 million children in low- and middle-income countries are living in extreme poverty. Millions of children in high-income countries are also suffering. And more children are at risk of ...

At least 61 people have been killed in 14 U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since early September. President Donald Trump has said he is targeting “narcoterrorists” ...

During Tesla’s (TSLA) latest quarterly earnings call, CEO Elon Musk took the microphone to discuss a bevy of matters related to the EV company. This included Optimus, the humanoid robot in development ...

When a government rejects poverty data, it risks rejecting reality itself. The recent rejection of the World Bank’s poverty report by the Nigerian Presidency raises more questions than it answers.

New Census Bureau data highlights sharp contrasts in poverty across the U.S., with some states reporting rates nearly three times higher than others. Over the three-year period from 2022 through 2024, ...

President Trump’s tariffs could push nearly 1 million Americans into poverty, since import taxes weigh more heavily on lower-income households, according to a study published this week. Yale’s Budget ...

Houston has the highest poverty rate among the country’s 10 most populous cities. About 21.2% of Houston’s population lived below the poverty line last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data ...

As pandemic subsidies disappeared, wages kept workers just ahead of inflation, although gaps have widened for some groups. Data is the “supplemental” poverty rate, which accounts for taxes and ...

Jason Hickel receives funding from European Research Council (ERC-2022-SYG reference number 101071647). Dylan Sullivan receives funding from European Research Council (ERC-2022-SYG reference number ...