In Bangladesh, programs targeting ultra-poor, rural households can help families escape extreme poverty. However, the ...

In recent decades, Cherokee Nation has continued to prosper in cultural preservation, health care and economic development by leaps and bounds. Although poverty rates decline year over year in tribal ...

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Poverty rates remain especially high among Arab and haredi populations, who together account for 65.1% of people in poverty, nearly double their share of the population.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — 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 ...

Poverty Point is an archaeological site north of New Orleans that experts believe was a major trading hub sometime between 1700 B.C.E. and 1100 B.C.E. A new study proposes that the impressive ...

Do you struggle with maintaining a healthy lifestyle? Have a tough time committing to an exercise schedule or sticking with a nutritious well-balanced diet? Are you unable to adhere to a sleep ...

The scenes are grisly: stick-thin children huddling together in a muddy stream, white volunteers surrounded by throngs of starving Africans, and Arab children in refugee camps holding tin bowls. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aisha Nyandoro is a leading voice on equitable economic policies. It’s time to retire the outdated federal poverty line and ...

One might expect researchers to have settled the question long ago of whether poverty causes crime. On the surface, the answer seems obvious. A correlation certainly exists: anyone working in the ...