Poverty

Municipal and state governments as well as NGOs that support small or independent businesses are finally beginning to address what changes they need to make to support the creation …

What do we teach our youth when we make no effective effort to see that homeless youth are housed?

Thousands of poor Brazilians were evicted from their homes to build multimillion-dollar World Cup stadiums that may never be used again. Now Brazilians are fighting back.

The recent surge in unaccompanied, undocumented minors apprehended at the US-Mexico border draws attention to the poverty and violence ravaging Latin America and the lack of resources available to …

The death of a Pennsylvania mother in jail last week has once again highlighted the punitive cycle of criminal justice debt.

Just a year ago, there were mass protests in Brazil - on one day alone, more than a million demonstrators hit the streets - speaking out against the billions …

They're turning yet another wing of the “justice” system into a straight-out profit center.

Religious and development groups urge reforms to protect the poor.

More than 200 worker leaders at 50 federal contractors demand president to end strikes, allow collective bargaining.

David Cay Johnston stresses that inequality is primarily a result of political and economic arrangements, including anti-trust policy and how much investment society and parents make in their children's …