The concept is simple and seductive: Give people cash, lift them out of poverty. It’s a strategy increasingly being used in both lower- and higher-income countries to help poor people. In short, there ...

The poor and non-poor share many of the same values about work and government’s responsibility. Americans believe the Great Recession and its aftermath have made it hard for the poor to find jobs.

President Obama has signaled that he plans to use income inequality as a political wedge issue in the 2014 midterm election. The idea is to shine a spotlight on the large disparity between the ...

TOPSHOT - Demonstrators take part in a protest over a fuel price hike ordered by the government to secure an IMF loan, in Quito, on October 11, 2019. The Mexican government recently reached an ...

Acknowledging how young people have been given a world marked by inequality, injustice, war and environmental degradation, Pope Francis urged those looking for solutions to be concrete, to involve the ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2021 -- A delivery worker rolls packages across Wall Street in New York, United States, Jan. 8, 2021. U.S. employers slashed 140,000 jobs in December, (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua ...

Started in Dallas 24 years ago, Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls has delivered its 5 millionth pair of shoes, to a child in central Mexico earlier this year. During that trip, the program served around ...

FRADIA BULAGE, a school nurse in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, says the 100,000 shillings ($29) the government gave her last year through a scheme to help the country’s poorest 500,000 households was not ...

Pastor David Ibiyeomie of Salvation Ministries has reiterated his stance that Jesus avoided associating with poor people because He “detested poverty.” Ibiyeomie earned backlash after advocating for ...