Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...

Rwanda and GiveDirectly will mobilize more than $150 million over five years to reduce poverty by 25% in the five poorest districts. Rwanda reduced its national poverty rate by 12.4 percentage points ...

West Yorkshire, where the original “Wuthering Heights” was written, offers a window into the forces that are disrupting British politics.

The tragic death of a 10-year-old boy over a 75-cent pen highlights the devastating reality of systemic poverty, geographic isolation, and government failure in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province ...