poverty

Over the last half-century, some $22 trillion has been spent on anti-poverty programs and yet the percentage of poor in this nation remains unchanged.

King was working to broaden the scope of the civil rights movement to include poverty and the end of the war in Vietnam.

Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is a Trump supporter with a history of controversial comments.

Estimates suggest that almost half of all U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by AI.

The world’s wealthiest billionaires made enough money in 2017 to end extreme poverty around the world seven times over, according to a new report.

Poverty and segregation drive the gap between public schools across the United States.

"I've always attempted to portray a realistic portrait of the American people and of working-class people. And in fact, it was working class people who elected Trump," Roseanne said on Monday.

"The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Illusion," Philip Alston said.

The report also found that health care expenses are pushing hundreds of millions of people into poverty.

By 2020, there will be 1.5 billion people living in slums, the majority of whom are unmapped.

Child poverty fell from almost 30 percent in 1967 to a record low of 15.6 percent in 2016.

Oxfam International basically says we're like a Third World nation, given how slowly the Trump administration has responded to the crisis in Puerto Rico.

Despite Jesus's teachings, a large percentage of Christians in the United States believe poverty is self-inflicted.

The term “disability” covers a number of functional limitations—physical, sensory, mental and intellectual.

More than 100 million Nigerians live on less than $1 per day, while a wealthy fraction benefits from massive oil reserves.

New research reveals the answer isn't what we're often led to believe.

"You take somebody that has the right mindset, you can take everything from them and put them on the street and I guarantee in a little while they'll be right back up there," Carson said in an interview.

In Yemen, starvation and a bloody civil war are leading some women to join Al-Qaeda.

Food has long been used as an instrument of power, one that lets populations live or die.

Changing the definition of poverty ensures that we'll never fully "win" the war, a retired entrepreneur writes.

New research reveals the connection between stress, poverty and brain development in children.

Two studies show that uninsured and Medicaid patients often suffer compared to those with private insurance.

Researchers counted the costs of the consequences of poverty for people on low incomes.

Developing nations are suffering a “hemorrhage” of wealth due to tax avoidance.

A new study suggests a fifth of people living on earth could be severely overweight by 2025.

Customers without access to their money took to social media to let out their grievances.

The World Bank's benchmark of daily expenditure is now $1.90, up from $1 in 25 years ago.

The fall is attributed to strong economic growth rates in emerging markets and investments in education, health and social safety nets.

For decades teachers have been asked to do something that is beyond their control: fix poverty.