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Why is the 2026 Social Security 2.8% COLA failing against 3.3% inflation? Is your retirement check shrinking?Social Security COLA 2026 Inflation Gap: Why 2.8% Increase Trails 3.3% Senior Inflation. The 2.8% Social Security COLA for 2026 is failing....30 Apr, 2026, 10.27 PM IST- TMC counters PM Modi's Bengal speech with '7-point reality check'Derek O'Brien challenges Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statements on India's progress and West Bengal's economy. O'Brien highlights widesp...09 Apr, 2026, 07.07 PM IST
- India’s poverty levels continue to fall as SBI projects 4.6% rate for 2024A State Bank of India report estimates India's poverty rate to decline to 4.6% in 2024, a significant drop from the World Bank's 5.3% estim...10 Jun, 2025, 12.04 PM IST
- Extreme poverty in India down to 5.3% in 2022-23: World BankIndia witnessed a significant decline in extreme poverty, dropping from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% recently, even with the World Bank's revis...07 Jun, 2025, 05.17 PM IST
- India’s poverty rate declined to 4.5-5% in 2022-23: SBI ResearchIndia's poverty rate declined to 4.5-5% in 2022-23, with rural poverty declining to 7.2% and urban poverty down to 4.6%. This decline is at...27 Feb, 2024, 09.49 AM IST
- Extreme poverty in India declined by 12 percentage points between 2011-2019: World BankThe extreme poverty count fell from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 and the decline in rural areas was much higher than in urban areas, esti...18 Apr, 2022, 12.45 AM IST
- View: Informal labour & capital are likely to bear bigger Covid shocksPoverty and its public policy implication are clear. Clarity on inequality is more difficult. For a start, inequality is relative and the w...17 Sep, 2020, 11.54 PM IST
- Pace of extreme poverty reduction in S Asia faster than rest of the world: World BankBetween 1990 and 2015, the world experienced a 25-percentage point drop in extreme poverty against a 35 percentage-point drop in South Asia19 Sep, 2018, 08.34 PM IST
- Delhi sees decline in poverty rateAccording to the survey which was tabled today by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, there were 23.3 lakh people living Below Poverty Li...24 Jun, 2015, 08.18 PM IST
- Declining poverty: No reason to be coy about good economic newsThe proportion of the poor to the total population has fallen from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 21.9% in 2011-12.25 Jul, 2013, 08.02 AM IST
- Poverty has declined at much faster rate during UPA: CongressCongress today conceded that there has been price rise but said poverty has declined at a much faster rate during UPA regime as compared to...24 Jul, 2013, 09.07 PM IST
- Government's poverty alleviation strategy yielding results: Montek Singh AhluwaliaGovt's development strategy has worked well with initial estimates suggesting 2% decline in the incidence of poverty during 2011-12, the te...16 Oct, 2012, 05.14 PM IST
- Poverty decline rate doubled during UPA regime: Montek Singh AhluwaliaMontek refuted remarks that the Government could be trying to keep major chunk of public from some benefits by showing reduction in poverty...07 Apr, 2012, 08.32 PM IST
- Discrepancy in data led to low poverty line: Montek SinghThe Commission's estimates faced criticism in Parliament for its description of poor and resultant fall in people below the poverty line.20 Mar, 2012, 07.55 PM IST
- 49.1 million Americans poor under new census methodThe number of Americans living in poverty has jumped by nearly three million to 49.1 million, or 16 per cent of the total population, accor...08 Nov, 2011, 04.54 PM IST
- Research by JNU shows inequality has increased in both rural & urban areasPoverty in India has fallen at twice the rate since 2004-05 , says a study by two professors of Delhi's Jawarharlal Nehru University.25 Oct, 2011, 02.09 AM IST
- India contributes to large drop in global poverty: UN reportIndia has contributed to a large reduction in global poverty, according to the UN annual report on the Millennium Development Goals.08 Jul, 2011, 11.11 AM IST
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