Even amid San Antonio’s rapid growth, the city’s median income fell over the past two years, while the number of those living in poverty went up, the Express-News reports, citing new federal data.

INSENSITIVITY and harshness against those in need is at levels not seen or felt before, services and experts say, as politicians begin to grapple with the growing poverty crisis in SA. The skeleton ...

While affluent nations step back from humanitarian relief and economic development assistance, the world is on the verge of reversing progress against global poverty.

The Department of Basic Education is taking significant steps to combat period poverty among girl learners, ensuring access ...

More than half of Bexar County families were either in poverty or living a single financial misstep away from it in 2018, according to a new study by the United Ways of Texas. During that period, 17% ...

Some days a lifeline arrived as an SMS. For Daddy Mabe, the beep-beeping on his phone with a message that R350 had been deposited into his bank account from a government grant changed the day’s ...

Andrew Gibbs receives funding from UK Research and Innovation project MR/T029803/1. The original data were collected as part of a DfID funded programme: What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women ...

Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...

A report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's about 27% of the world’s youngest children. Africa’s population of more than ...

This past Sunday, the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg witnessed an awe-inspiring gathering of over 100,000 individuals from ...

The research was funded by the National Development Agency (South Africa). South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world. More than 50% of the population live in poverty. Despite ...

We go to South Africa, where more than 70 are dead and at least 3,000 people have been arrested since demonstrations erupted after former President Jacob Zuma began his 15-month jail sentence for ...