Poverty

Gone are the days when the U.S. accounted for over 40 percent of the world's billionaires, with Western Europe and Japan making up most of the rest.

After four decades of war, a global consensus over Afghanistan and reforms in the Pakistani statehood, with the United Nation's help, is needed following US withdrawal.

In the face of severe food shortages and with no relief aid, the elderly like Zeinab Wambui, from lower Mukurweini, Central Kenya, are facing very tough times.

The new version of the exam has tougher questions and a higher registration fee—plus it requires computer proficiency.

With terrifying charts and dire warnings, officials continue to say that in 2013, twice as many Haitians as last year - some 1.5 million people - continue to face …

The Republican-Tea Party alliance operates a weapon of mass deflection, protecting capitalism from criticism. Sadly, the Democrats neither expose nor attack the Republican project, says Wolff.

With tens of thousands of people up in arms about the checkpoints, there is momentum for reform.

Many states ban stamps for ex-prisoners, who face a 50% unemployment rate, making prison the only sure place they won't starve.

The upper class rich white folks think poverty comes from people being u201ctoo lazy.u201d In all reality, African Americans and Latinos do not get the chances they deserve.

Suffering and dangers in Haiti are being ignored by the government, which is spending US $6 million on a massive makeup job.