The message seemed designed to reach Washington as one administration prepares to hand the baton to the next: If the United ...

A new study co-led by the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) at UC Santa Cruz shows coral reef restoration in ...

Arkansas has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, and individuals often struggle to find stable jobs and ...

Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ...

and its poverty rate is more than twice that of the poorest state, Mississippi. Unable to borrow on global markets, Puerto Rico was in economic limbo for years after turning over its budget to an ...

Puerto Rico has one of the highest poverty rates in the U.S., and Congressional actions in 2016 resulted in austerity measures that cut back public services on the island. Nearly two years ago ...

(Image/Freepik) India’s poverty fell sharply from close to 22% in 2011-12 to well under 5% in 2023-24, with almost minimal incidence of extreme poverty, and a shrinking of urban-rural gap ...

A research study by State Bank of India (SBI) highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has reduced to minimal with poverty rates in the country falling below 5 percent in 2024.

Poverty declined faster in rural areas during FY24 as the poverty ratio dipped below 5 per cent for the first time to 4.86 per cent from 7.2 per cent in FY23, according to a study by SBI Research ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon waves alongside her husband Jose Yovin Vargas during her swearing-in ceremony as ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jenniffer González Colón was sworn in Thursday as Puerto Rico’s new governor during a normally ebullient ceremony held amid widespread anger over a blackout that ...