Chart 2 illustrates this point by plotting changes in a measure ... and agricultural policies have played a much larger role than increases in international trade. Poverty has declined The combination ...

Both the HDI and per capita income are highly correlated with other widely used measures of poverty (Chart 2), such as the share of the population with income of less than $1 per day (a World Bank ...

Throughout the pandemic, researchers from Zhejiang University, University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame have tracked US poverty rates. In March 2021, pandemic-era poverty reached a ...

The following chart, as replicated from The New York Times' reporting of the historical Supplemental Poverty Measure poverty rates and Urban Institute's projected rate, highlights the percent ...