In 2006, NATO defense ministers agreed to commit a minimum of 2% of their gross domestic product to defense spending in order to ensure the alliance’s long-term military readiness. Germany spends more ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – As the fiscal 2023 budget makes its way through the process over the next few months, a statewide advocacy group is urging lawmakers to include in the proposal an increase to cash ...

Two new studies show the effect of the emergency $2 trillion package known as the Cares Act and what happened when the money ran out. By Jason DeParle WASHINGTON — After an ambitious expansion of the ...

The recession drove the number of poor Americans in 2009 to its highest total in half a century, yet several measures indicate the impact could well have been worse. While the Census Bureau's report ...

“The American government gives the most help to those who need it the least.” That comment is from Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond, whose recently published “Poverty, By America” is ...

At a time when many Hoosier families are in financial distress because of the pandemic, the Indiana House Republicans’ draft budget would cap the state aid for educating children in poverty and at the ...

Does foreign aid really work, or does it merely trap countries in poverty? Each year, billions are spent, yet 692 million ...

The latest report from the Census Bureau on income, poverty and health insurance coverage is out. The figures are for 2019, however, and, unfortunately, in this year of pandemic recession and tens of ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. poverty fell overall in 2020, a surprising decline largely due to the swift and substantial federal relief that Congress enacted at the start of the pandemic to try to prevent ...

Though it's unclear whether bans on evictions will be extended past today's deadline, federal aid programs that were expanded during the pandemic are having a significant impact on poverty in this ...

A measure that accounts for all federal subsidies also showed a reduction of almost half in the number of children below the poverty level. By Lydia DePillis and Jason DeParle A second year of ...