After decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in pov

One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their li

Adapted in part from the "Opportunity in America" series of policy briefs, this volume focuses on social and economic mobility in the United States. Class or fa

Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequali

One-in-seven adults and one-in-five children in the United States live in poverty. Individuals and families living in povertyÊnot only lack basic, material nec