For the richest country in history, poverty in America remains jarringly widespread. Taking government assistance into account, one in eight American adults was classified as poor on the eve of the ...

The absence of strong accountability turns anti-poverty programmes into symbolic gestures rather than vehicles of real change in Nigeria.

One of out of every three Lebanese have fallen into poverty in 2022 BEIRUT, May 23, 2024 — Poverty in Lebanon has more than tripled over the past decade reaching 44% of the total population, according ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, global humanitarian organization Concern Worldwide exposed the corporations and billionaires who could do more to end extreme poverty in its ...

What is a digital story focused on a global issue? Digital storytelling is a form of digital media production that enables anyone to share aspects of a global issue or their story. The media used can ...

A slew of pandemic-era emergency aid for children—including universal school meals and Medicaid expansions in many states—led to the lowest child poverty rate on record. But new Census data show ...

The COVID-19 crisis has led to the first rise in extreme poverty and food insecurity in 20 years. Is it realistic to end these two scourges once and for all? Ahead of the Commission for Social ...

EVER before the recent #Endsars protest which reverberated across the country, with the youth ventilating their anger against unemployment, poverty, harassment, corruption and oppression, Chief ...

It should be a cause of concern that, as described by one proponent of the Un-Fair Campaign, "67 percent of blacks and 56 percent of American Indians" in Duluth live in poverty. This raises the ...

Being poor is expensive. You don’t need to be told that, especially if you’re always living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by; you’ve noticed. Still, when you’re just trying to get ...

There's a scene in Ron Howard's new "Hillbilly Elegy" that approaches the quiet dignity I wish the rest of the movie had. Glenn Close stands in a doorway. She's playing Mamaw, the proud Appalachian ...