Why a white fast-food worker in Mississippi who never started college is the statistical epitome of a low-wage worker 615_McDonalds_Hiring_Reuters.jpg One in four U.S. workers -- or nearly 40 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as ...

CARE CEO Michelle Nunn (pictured here, center right, in Zambia) leads efforts that helped more than 50 million people last year. BY FastCo Works From poverty to wars to climate change, more and more ...

Bill Gates is calling for a change in the fight against climate change by shifting the focus away from reducing carbon emissions to fighting poverty and preventing disease and hunger. In an essay ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — City Council Vice President LaShay D. Harris released a 200+ page report detailing 13 initiatives to enhance the lives of Rochester’s children. A December report by The Children’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Sedgwick County, the need for community support of vulnerable children is a daily reality reflected in human lives and local ...

The deepening economic crisis has hit children the hardest. While one in three children is at risk of poverty, two million children live in conditions of deep poverty. 950,000 children are working, ...

El Salvador faces a great opportunity to accelerate poverty reduction. Although poverty rates have dropped significantly over the past two decades, extreme poverty remains a challenge: by 2023, around ...

Young American parents today are struggling to get by in a world whose infrastructure and government may be more suited to the young parents of past generations. Faced with a lack of affordable ...

Newly published data show that 5.2 million children in the United Kingdom – 36 percent of all children in the country – live in poverty. While the government announced a Child Poverty Taskforce to ...

Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as flophouses. Then in 2017, she met 11-year-old Mikal in a hotel lobby.