Poverty led to social problems across America. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr blamed poverty as a cause of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1965.

A new study reveals that Americans are living without running water, even in some of the nation's wealthiest areas.

A few weeks after the recent election New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham went on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and said, “New Mexico’s ...

More American cities—even those seen as affluent—are home to people living without running water as people are being ...

Welfare doesn’t equip people with tools to become self-sufficient; it rewards dependency, private charities do better.

A World Bank and CEDLAS report highlights that poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean dropped to its lowest level in 2023 ...

More than 20,000 residents do not have access to running water in five of the top 15 biggest cities, a study revealed.

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

The silence of poverty is deafening. For the 15 million children living in poverty, playtime and early learning activities like reading, singing, arts & crafts and dress-up are not necessarily a way ...

I started off 2024 on the climate/environment beat, often reporting with my colleague Colin Kinniburgh. My question was often ...