there is “so much poverty in character on so many people that we misname as leaders.” Hinchcliffe’s remark, likening Puerto ...

The Republican nominee's remarks come days after a joke about Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage" at his New York ...

Does membership in a group that has been poor for generations constitute belonging to a separate culture? A study of Puerto Ricans in both Puerto Rico and New York indicates that it does ...

I will deliver the best future for Puerto Ricans and for Hispanic Americans,” Trump said at the Tuesday night rally.

This year’s election is unlike any other in the 76 years since the U.S. began allowing Puerto Ricans to vote for their ...

Today, while progress has been made, challenges like poverty and depopulation remain a pressing concern. Similarly, in Puerto ...

Community health worker programs are spreading across the U.S., including in rural areas and small cities as health providers and state and federal governments increasingly invest in them.

This metric relies on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which determines poverty rates by calculating the share of people in a state whose family or individual income falls below poverty thresholds.

and officials supported birth control as a form of population control in the hopes that it would stem Puerto Rico's endemic poverty. There were no anti-birth control laws on the books ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

The organization employs direct payments for poverty relief around the world ... money to households impacted by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Back then, GiveDirectly ...

This means more people are experiencing “energy poverty,” where their households are burdened by the costs of their energy bills—and it’s hitting people in Southern states the hardest.