poverty

After the U.S. Supreme Court decision that local governments can punish people for sleeping in public spaces, what are the possible effects here in Washington?

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the city’s ban against homeless people camping in public spaces.

New data says about one in three Washington households are not making enough money to make ends meet. The ALICE data is a guide for the City of Tacoma's guaranteed income experiment, which recently announced it's extending the GRIT pilot program to new families.

The mission of public schools is to provide an education to all students, but in many cases they’ve also become a de facto social safety net.The Seattle…

A new study on an innovative program in Tulsa, Okla., that links quality Head Start services with job training and parental support shows it's improving the lives of both mothers and their children.

Some African countries have long witnessed mysterious outbreaks of paralysis. Affected regions are poor and conflict-ridden, where people's main food is a bitter, poisonous variety of cassava.

Last year, Oxfam said the world's richest 62 people had as much money as the poorest 3.6 billion. Turns out those numbers were wrong: The richest nine people had as much wealth as half the planet.

A new project uses computers to analyze daytime satellite pictures for signs of extreme poverty. Does it work?

That's a question that is fairly new to science. Researchers are now looking at the possible links.

Kids in a Uganda slum learn that chess has a lot in common with life. You can't change the way you start out — but you can decide your next move.