Denmark, Finland, and Sweden are proof that poverty in the US doesn’t have to be this high by Dylan Matthews Nov 11, 2015, 7:30 AM PST ...

Just to try to contextualize this a little bit more, imagine two people — one in the US, one in Denmark. They both grow up spending maybe half their childhood in poverty.

Pensioners tend to face greater financial difficulty in Eastern Europe, while poverty rates are generally lower in Nordic and Western European countries. Switzerland and the UK are outliers here, ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self ...

Just to try to contextualize this a little bit more, imagine two people — one in the US, one in Denmark. They both grow up spending maybe half their childhood in poverty.

A misleading comparison of child poverty rates across Nordic countries and the UK has been made on social media by using incorrect and out-of-date data.

Eradicating poverty is at the top of the U.N.’s stated goals. But their measure of poverty is only half the story.

A child born in poverty in America is less likely to move up into the middle class in adulthood than is true in many other Western nations.

Denmark Aims a Wrecking Ball at ‘Non-Western’ Neighborhoods A government program is using demolition and relocation to remake neighborhoods with immigrants, poverty or crime.

A child born in poverty in America is less likely to move up into the middle class in adulthood than is true in many other Western nations.

In 2021 young people in Denmark were at the highest risk of facing poverty in the EU, according to the European Union statistical office. Over one-quarter (25.6%) of Danes age 15-29 were at risk ...