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Poverty
October 17, 2020
After Lebanese revolt's fury, waning protests face long road
A year ago, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets protesting taxes and a rapidly deteriorating economic ...
October 13, 2020
IMF envisions a sharp 4.4% drop in global growth for 2020
The International Monetary Fund foresees a steep fall in international growth this year as the global economy struggles to ...
October 10, 2020
WFP chief seeks million from donors, billionaires for food
Even before COVID-19 became an issue, World Food Program chief David Beasley was warning global leaders that the world would ...
October 10, 2020
World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize for hunger fight
The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting hunger and seeking to end its use as "a weapon of war ...
October 09, 2020
Brazil’s poor squeezed by less virus aid, surging food costs
Many people in Brazil are struggling to cope with less pandemic aid from the government and jumping food prices, with ...
October 08, 2020
IRS chief: agency reaching out on pandemic relief payments
The head of the IRS, on the defensive over millions of Americans in danger of missing coronavirus relief payments, said ...
October 07, 2020
Up to 150 million could join extreme poor, World Bank says
Up to 150 million people could slip into extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day, by late next year depending on how ...
October 06, 2020
UN report says South Sudan has healed little since civil war
South Sudan has made no concrete steps toward national healing more than two years after the end of a civil war that killed ...
October 06, 2020
DC unveils plan to open public school buildings in November
Public Schools in Washington, D.C., will partially reopen their buildings to select students beginning Nov. 9 in a ...
October 05, 2020
Cities declare racism a health crisis, but some doubt impact
Christy DeGallerie noticed a startling trend in her online group for coronavirus survivors: White patients got medications ...
October 02, 2020
US panel tackles race, poverty in virus vaccine priorities
A U.S. advisory panel made recommendations Friday for who should be first in line to get COVID-19 vaccine, including a plea ...
October 01, 2020
Police departments seeing modest cuts, but not 'defunding'
The racial justice protests following the death of George Floyd earlier this year prompted calls to “defund the police” in ...
September 25, 2020
Landlords suing to push back against eviction ban
As millions of Americans struggle to pay their rent during the coronavirus pandemic, landlords are going to courts, claiming ...
September 24, 2020
Virus shutdown took a toll on routine health care for kids
A sharp decline in routine medical care for low-income children during the coronavirus shutdown could cause long-term harm ...
September 23, 2020
China uproots ethnic minority villages in anti-poverty fight
Under a portrait of President Xi Jinping, Ashibusha sits in her freshly painted living room cradling her infant daughter ...
September 22, 2020
Census takers head to homeless shelters, outdoor camps
Starting this week, census takers are grabbing reflective vests, face masks, bug spray and flashlights and heading out at ...
September 20, 2020
Thousands march in Berlin in support of refugees in Greece
Thousands of people marched in Berlin on Sunday demanding that the government do more to help migrants stuck in Greece, many ...
September 19, 2020
One family's desperate, deadly attempt to flee Lebanon
Mohammed Sufian did not dream of much: a job, food on the table, the chance to buy his 2½-year-old son the little things a ...
September 18, 2020
Flooding affects more than 1 million across East Africa
Flooding has affected well over a million people across East Africa, another calamity threatening food security on top of a ...
September 18, 2020
UN food chief urges rich to help keep millions from starving
The World Food Program chief warned Thursday that millions of people are closer to starvation because of the deadly ...
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