Using novel state-level data of Peru from 1997 to 2010, we investigate how growth in different sectors affects poverty rates and the middle class. Our results indicate that only the manufacturing ...

A new study reveals that cross-class connections are key to lifting children out of poverty. Behind the research is Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University and director of Opportunity ...

On Tuesday the Census Bureau is scheduled to release income and poverty statistics for 2022. It’s safe to say that the report will be hard to interpret. Last year, the two poverty measures released by ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up for the first time in years, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Experts caution the trend, including an increasing child poverty rate, ...

Mr. Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, is the director of its Eviction Lab and the author of “Poverty, by America” and “Evicted.” The United States has a poverty problem. A third of the country’s ...