poverty

The U.N. has set the goal of eliminating extreme poverty and reducing the toll of disease by 2030. But there's a surprising obstacle.

World-renowned chef Massimo Bottura is putting his culinary skills to use with a world-class soup kitchen in Rio de Janeiro.

The expansion of Medicaid and continued enrollment in the Children's Health Insurance Program have boosted the proportion of eligible kids with health coverage to 91 percent, a study finds.

He was an accountant for Big Oil. Then came the cyclone of 1970. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed found a new calling — and came up with an idea that could be key to ending extreme poverty.

Researchers at the University of Washington say they can use phone records to help humanitarian efforts in developing countries. The key is the different…

The pictures show how the working poor eke out a living. And no, they are not depressing.

Poor and minority students in Washington state are more likely to be labeled truants. That’s a according to the state’s 2015 Truancy Report out Wednesday.

Low-income residents Washington state are disproportionately burdened by debt, according to a new report by the grassroots advocacy group Alliance for a…

Learning how to budget and save is something everyone can benefit from, even people who barely have a penny to their name.That’s the idea behind so-called…

The number of Americans living below the official federal poverty line stayed steady last year. That was a surprise to most experts, who predicted it…