Not long ago, obesity was popularly considered a disease of affluence — the product of excess and overindulgence. Today, ...

The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates among wealthy countries. Here’s a look at struggles kids living in ...

Poverty’s stress makes harmful choices more likely and helpful ones less likely. Why do low-income households buy more ...

Dr Eunan O'Neill, director of public health for Cornwall, said child poverty affected "every aspect of a child's life", and ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) — Community leaders and volunteers in Saginaw are looking to inspire change through an interactive experience. The group took part in a community action poverty simulation at the ...

Low-income older Americans on average die nearly a decade earlier than wealthier people, a new analysis finds.

It’s common to blame poverty on life’s deep wiring, like a person’s lack of education or the racial discrimination they have faced or their immigration status. Poverty is explained as the product of a ...

World Population Prospects report was released recently, many Nigerians dismissed it as another dismal reminder of how ...

Right into the rural corners of Tanzania, just like many third world countries, poverty is not just a condition, it is a way ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 152, Special Issue: Extraction and beyond: people’s economic responses to restructuring in southern and central Africa (June 2017), pp. 189-203 (15 ...

Drugs have been a persistent problem in Pin Point, Ga., a tiny rural settlement best known as the birthplace of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Neighborhood leaders tried everything to chase ...