Poverty

Fuerza del Valle Workers' Center, which battles wage theft, is asking local elected leaders to step up, take action and fight poverty.

In today's On the News segment: The number of Americans living on less than $2 a day has doubled in the last two decades; women fighting for equal pay …

In California, rent and health care are two items that soak up a good chunk of the elderly population's income.

This episode provides updates on extreme poverty, and more.

The health sector across the Gaza strip has been in a constant state of crisis for nearly a decade.

The experiences of those displaced by Katrina teach us how disaster relief programs interact with poverty and social welfare programs.

Having lower wages means that working-class women will be unable withstand the process of gentrification and remain in their homes and neighborhoods.

Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the city, Malik Rahim took Democracy Now! around the neighborhood of Algiers.

The Fed plans to raise interest rates, possibly beginning as early as next month, in order to slow the economy.

The limit was passed as part of a strict welfare bill.