This is a sped-up timeline: When Gates started his foundation 25 years ago, he’d been planning for the money to last several decades after his death.

Data doesn’t always show a full picture. Example: Functional unemployment was 23.3% in January — very different than the 4% headline figure.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is focusing on the need to invest in global health in its 2024 Goalkeepers Report.

Despite wage gains, lower-income families have been hit hard by inflation and the expiration of pandemic-era benefits.

They also face workplace discrimination.

The two challenges are interrelated, and a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute says they must be addressed in tandem.

The expiration of pandemic-era government benefits is partially responsible for the increases in poverty.

Fast-food workers, who are often paid low wages and work limited hours, make up 11% of homeless workers in California, a study finds.

The supplemental poverty rate fell to its lowest since 2009. Children living in poverty fell by almost half.

In an excerpt from “The Fight to Save the Town,” the author describes how residents get by in an Oregon county with a declining government.