She was a single mom living in poverty, looking for childcare for her children. She was under-educated, unemployed and unfulfilled. But Nataline Purdy was a woman full of potential and promise and ...

IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the country’s 240 million people live below or around the poverty line, ...

Kennedy Elementary School Principal Cris Lopez Anderson, pictured in this December 2014 file photo, says many children in the Lawrence school district live in poverty. Lawrence resident Elizabeth ...

The link between achievement and income is well documented, but a new study has confirmed that the effects of poverty on children are physiological as much as they are social. The analysis, released ...

A book detailing poverty in Oklahoma -- and published more than six years ago -- is still an eerily accurate portrait of the state's economic condition, a consultant for the Oklahoma Institute for ...

Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

A recently released report on poverty by the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights revealed what many of us in Southern Illinois either knew or sensed: Poverty is higher in ...

Poverty is as misunderstood as any subject can be. At one level, it could mean no food, no clothes, bad health, and recognized inadequacy of shelters, amenities, and services.

Under the ILCS 2014, members of the surveyed households aged 16 years and above were asked a series of questions designed to give insights into their primary concerns related to living conditions in ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, according to a new report. The report, "Decade of Destitution? Severe Lived ...