The African-American leader Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, described as the “closest person we have to Dr. King,” addresses ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian activists on Thursday demanded that other countries temporarily stop deportations to their ...

The purist punk spirit that underpinned Nirvana is in danger of being diluted by the endless stream of merch and music used ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

But I hadn't dealt with one of the most significant factors underlying my hoarding instincts: poverty mentality. Seventeen years later, I had to confront this issue to create a comfortable living ...

More questionable is that about 11.1 percent of Americans live in poverty despite this national wealth. However, the acceptance that poverty for some is an unfortunate consequence of free markets ...

UNITED NATIONS — More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries, according to a report released ...

The National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (known in Spanish as CONEVAL) defines poverty as having at least one out of six social deprivation indicators (educational lag ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America?

We examine the effects of the Basic Pension Scheme, a social pension in South Korea, on income and consumption poverty among older adults. We apply a difference-in-differences event study design and ...

Chicago, IL, USA, Nov. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Shriver Center on Poverty Law today released its 2023 annual report, Changing Rules. Changing Lives. This year’s report highlights the ...

He is the author of “Within Our Means,” a biweekly newsletter on ending poverty in America. When I began planning this newsletter, I thought through what kind of antipoverty solutions I’d ...