Children who grow up in poor communities or impoverished homes tend to develop a “scarcity mindset” that informs their emotional well-being and decision-making skills, even into adulthood. The ...

It's called the "graduation" approach — both financial and moral support to help people move from extreme poverty to ...

As election-year ads and social media campaigns focus on politicians’ personalities, Rev. William J. Barber II and other advocates for the poor want voters to look instead at policies they say divide ...

Nearly 1 in 5 people in the world lives in poverty. Even in many developed countries such as the United States, poverty rates exceed 12%. In an age of breathtaking technological progress and dynamic ...

1."How it grinds people into dust. Between the malnourishment, housing insecurity, direct/secondary/generational trauma, abject exploitation by finance, poor health ...

Rio de Janeiro — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone down.

Being able to work and, more specifically, having financial stability are some of the things that craft a person’s societal “deservingness” for basic respect, understanding, and support, according to ...

According to Stats SA’s national poverty lines, the Lower-Bound Poverty Line (LBPL) is capped at R1,300 per person, per month ...

Despite two decades of global progress in expanding health services, an estimated 1.6 billion people were pushed into or ...

The current crisis builds on decades of neoliberal plunder and economic austerity authored by both conservative and liberal politicians. Activists hold a rally outside of the US Supreme Court Building ...