Nearly two weeks into her role as Detroit mayor, Mary Sheffield has hit the ground running with some major moves in the city.

In recognition of Poverty Awareness Month, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces a new campaign, Poverty Is Not a Line.

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...

5 September - Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

I can’t afford to properly feed my children. It’s a bitter feeling when all we have at the end of the month is bread and butter … It tears you apart. I feel like I’m not doing justice to anyone, not ...