Why a white fast-food worker in Mississippi who never started college is the statistical epitome of a low-wage worker 615_McDonalds_Hiring_Reuters.jpg One in four U.S. workers -- or nearly 40 million ...

One in two children in Detroit lives in poverty, and roughly one-third of adults across the city live below the poverty line.

To increase empathy and help the public be better prepared to address the issue, local leaders are hosting a poverty ...

New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

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Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as flophouses. Then in 2017, she met 11-year-old Mikal in a hotel lobby.

Bill Gates is calling for a change in the fight against climate change by shifting the focus away from reducing carbon emissions to fighting poverty and preventing disease and hunger. In an essay ...

El Salvador faces a great opportunity to accelerate poverty reduction. Although poverty rates have dropped significantly over the past two decades, extreme poverty remains a challenge: by 2023, around ...

Poverty in our country is neither a mystery nor an accident. It is the inevitable outcome of decades of policy choices, governance gaps and collective tolerance for inequality.

PwC projects Nigeria’s poverty rate will reach 62 percent by 2026, leaving about 141 million people poor as weak incomes and ...