*MANILA, Philippines — The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has pushed an estimated 75 million to 80 million more people in developing Asia into extreme poverty as of last year compared with ...

A new World Bank note finds that Asian countries have reduced the number of people living in poverty — but work remains. Growing economic prosperity in the Asia-Pacific contributed to a sizeable ...

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The number of Asian Americans living in poverty in metropolitan New York City rose by 15 percent over the past decade, a new report found, including a pronounced increase in the suburbs. The trends ...

The New Zealand government said Wednesday that it will provide free sanitary products in schools across the country in an effort to tackle period poverty – where girls or women are unable to afford or ...

A Nepalese immigrant in his early 40s described the stress and uncertainty he felt during college about how to afford rent, food and tuition despite having a scholarship. A man of Hmong origin in his ...