Poverty

The FCC wants to put cell phones that can access the Internet in the hands of America's poor in hopes of reducing the digital divide.

The poor don't rate a mention in our public consciousness or political campaigns because we are inconvenient and pathologized.

The retail industry will keep expanding as a pillar of the low-wage economy.

The increasingly intolerant societal landscape and a growing economic divide challenge Narendra Modi's vision and ultimately India's democracy.

Poverty is on the rise in America and is creating a phenomenon known as the “poverty trap.”

His suggestion to expand the EITC makes as much sense as someone bringing a lone fire extinguisher to put out a forest fire.

The impetus could hardly be more pressing.

Wealthy influences and special interests have too much power in Washington, which is why banks have not been held to a higher level of accountability.

Correcting for underreporting reveals that the safety net also did more to reduce deep poverty than previously shown, although 11.2 million Americans remained below half the poverty line.

It's called the urban survival gap and it literally determines whether millions of infants will live or die before their fifth birthday.