A working group will bring together ministers, energy firms and consumer bodies to create a new tariff which could cut bills ...

EXCLUSIVE: SNP government enlists energy firms and consumer groups for working group to design new tariff offering discounted ...

Census data paint a complicated picture of progress against poverty in 2023, as the national poverty rate fell, rose, or held ...

Serving mainly high-end clients with their design skills, architects have moved away from their humanitarian origins. Elisabeth Fischer finds out why the industry is going back to its roots to help ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or the “nation’s report card,” shows significant improvements in test scores for students from low-income backgrounds, including Black and Latino ...

IN THE mid-1980s I worked for the Reagan administration as a White House Fellow working on welfare reform, a topic that the ...

School systems are similarly underperforming due to poor governance and weak state capacity. According to the World Bank, ...

The government struggles with a lot — but one thing it excels at is writing checks.

The Census Bureau has released nationwide figures for poverty, income, and health insurance coverage in 2023 from its Current ...

CT policymakers will choose a census tract and tackle poverty within it. But how exactly that will happen is largely up to ...

A German girl organises a big contribution to a South African charity tackling period-poverty issues. The authority will discuss providing period products in libraries and children and family centres.

The “thick skin bias” is a belief that individuals who live in poverty are more resilient than affluent people when facing a challenging situation. The assumption could, as a result, influence the ...