A new study using satellite data finds that 58% of the global population has been assigned to the wrong tier in the UN's ...

Discover how poverty traps create barriers to financial independence, what causes them, and explore practical solutions to ...

We are at a critical juncture today in the fight against poverty. Despite decades of hard-won development progress, a world free of poverty remains out of sight. Ten years ago, the outlook appeared ...

Nearly two weeks into her role as Detroit mayor, Mary Sheffield has hit the ground running with some major moves in the city. Last week, the mayor announced Rx Kids, a cash assistance program to help ...

Nancy Economou, has an unusual yet highly effective approach to combatting human trafficking. Her charity, Watts of Love, uses solar-powered lights to create economic empowerment. Increased economic ...

A conference at Stetson University addressed the increasing issue of poverty and homelessness, focusing on the connection to human trafficking. Human trafficking is a lucrative criminal enterprise, ...

If, like me, you’ve ever glimpsed a scrawny puppy curled beside its disheveled, unhoused owner and longed to “rescue” it from a life of misery, a revelatory and provocative new book by journalist ...

It is not uncontroversial to say that poverty is a form of injustice. That those living without their basic needs met are not being treated fairly within our rich and affluent, well-connected society.