Truthout
Poverty
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Latin America on a Dangerous Precipice
In Latin America, a large portion of the region's rural people still live on less than two dollars a day.
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What is the True Poverty Rate in America?
Poverty, especially if you're born into it, can be difficult to escape.
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The Color of Infant Mortality
Infant mortality is about race, poverty and geography, and the ways that the lives of some women and children in the US are made to matter more - and …
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Ferguson: Living Through the Replay
We seem repeatedly surprised by the anger generated by educational inequity, vanished jobs, income disparities, lost affordable housing, and racial and ethnic profiling.
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A Rising Tide Only Lifts All Boats When Everyone Has a Boat
A rising tide lifts only lifts all boats when everyone has a boat.
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About 620,000 Military Families Rely on Food Pantries to Meet Basic Needs
A new report found that the nation's food pantries serve 620,000 families with a member in the military - an indication that service members battling against poverty must often …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Tens of Millions of Americans Struggle With Hunger, and More
In the richest nation on Earth, tens of millions of Americans are struggling to find enough to eat, and more.
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Poverty Is Not Inevitable: What We Can Do Now to Turn Things Around
Having poor people in the richest country in the world is a choice. We have the money to solve this. But do we have the will?
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Henry A. Giroux | The New Authoritarianism in an Age of Manufactured Crises
Important issues are buried in the fog of manufactured crises, designed to stir popular sentiment but actually legitimizing policies that benefit the wealthy and hurt working- and middle-class communities, …
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How the Largest Worker Owned Co-op in the US Lifts People Out of Poverty
Cooperative Home Care Associates has 2,300 workers who enjoy good wages, regular hours, and family health insurance. With an investment of $1.2 million into the cooperative sector, New York …