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 ...

From poverty to wars to climate change, more and more people around the world are facing enormous crises. Food insecurity is on the rise, and conflicts and climate-related natural disasters strike ...

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, ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — City Council Vice President LaShay D. Harris released a 200+ page report detailing 13 initiatives to enhance the lives of Rochester’s children. A December report by The Children’s ...

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

According to UNICEF, more than 400 million children globally live in poverty, missing out on at least two daily needs such as nutrition and sanitation. New report warns more children are at risk of ...

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.

Tom Barclay, Kingdom Group chief executive, delivers a sharp, urgent call for Scotland to treat affordable housing as the essential foundation for ending child poverty, not an optional policy strand.

The Stormont Executive has been pressed to urgently tackle child poverty, which is impacting one in four children in the region. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said some 330,000 (17%) of people ...

Newly published data show that 5.2 million children in the United Kingdom – 36 percent of all children in the country – live in poverty. While the government announced a Child Poverty Taskforce to ...

A mother struggling with schizophrenia, extreme poverty, and the demands of raising a teenager is now facing a $32,000 bill from the Social Security Administration. According to a post on the ...