Transcript of President Bush's first State of the Union address, delivered to Congress Tuesday night. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, distinguished guests, fellow citizens, as ...

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This puts it among countries with the most unequal distribution of spending globally. Ending extreme poverty, unemployment and inequality requires economic growth that includes more people.

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in extreme poverty (that is, on less than US$2.15 a day). Nearly 67% of these ...

President Donald Trump has reasserted his ostensible support for policies that conservative proponents believe will encourage parents to have more children, within a “pronatalist” framework ...

s Indonesia progresses toward upper-middle-income status, one critical metric remains stuck in the past: Our poverty line. For over two decades, Indonesia has relied on a threshold set by ...

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A new projection by the World Bank on poverty should set off alarm bells in the corridors of power in Nigeria. The World Bank has projected that poverty in Nigeria will rise by 3.6 percentage ...

Malacañang on Friday welcomed the results of the latest OCTA Research survey that showed a significant decline in the number of Filipino families who consider themselves poor. Presidential ...

She tells our Writer at Large why the public wants politicians to do more to save children from poverty’s scourge RAGE, Claire Telfer explains, is the primary emotion that grips her when she ...

But in this incident, Bianco said, "This was not the case." TMZ was first to report Sperbeck's cause of death. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date ...