Poverty

In Latin America, young people are the main link in the chain of poverty leading from one generation to the next.

Professor Jason Hickel and activist Alnoor Ladha discuss the fallacy of economic growth, the battle for social justice and how to organize against the neoliberal system.

Author, critic and screenwriter Ruth Fowler advocates free education for all, a reimagined, less white feminism, and the dethronement of Creative Writing MFA programs.

Women represent 72 percent of all workers in tipped-wage jobs - those with a federal minimum wage of just $2.13 an hour.

A severe water crisis in financially bankrupt Detroit has prompted several NGOs to appeal for UN intervention.

Activists in Detroit have appealed to the United Nations over the cityu2019s move to shut off the water of thousands of residents.

In this excerpt from"Brazil's Dance With the Devil," Zirin describes the history of the poor Rio communities known as favelas, targets of a real-estate land grab.

As President Obama prepares to speak to the needs of working women during the White House Summit on Working Families, a new report from public policy organization Demos highlights …

The Millennium Development Goals will expire in 2015 and be replaced with the Sustainable Development Goals, which are intended to strengthen the international communityu2019s engagement with eradicating poverty and …

For many people in Brazil, a war has indeed broken out surrounding the current World Cup. Poor communities have been displaced by stadiums and related infrastructure for the event.