poverty

There are many out there — namely, Democrat leaders — whose power base “resides in poverty,” Dr. Ben Carson — the Agriculture Department’s national adviser for nutrition, health and housing — suggested during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Memphis Mayor Paul Young stated that crime in his city “and many other cities is all directly related to poverty.” Young began by saying he wants and is pleased to have other

California has the nation’s highest poverty rate, despite boasts by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that the state is also the fourth-richest economy in the world.

The World Bank published a study on Sunday that found 26 of the world’s poorest nations — including Afghanistan, Yemen, Ethiopia, and North Korea — are “in deeper debt than at any other time since 2006.”

An alarming study published on Tuesday by the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) found that 89 percent of Cubans now live in extreme poverty conditions.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is spending millions on debit cards for border crossers and illegal aliens as a study revealed Wednesday that a majority of New Yorkers live near the poverty line.

The Catholic University of Argentina found the poverty rate in the country to be at 57.4 percent in January.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Trenton, NJ Mayor Reed Gusciora stated that the city can’t take in migrants because “we’ve had food pantries, we have people out of work. And half of our population is under the

A New York Times opinion writer is calling out liberals, whom he says ignore one specific factor contributing to child poverty.

The State of California still leads the United States in poverty, according to new U.S. Census data released Tuesday.

The last time household income suffered a decline as large as it did in the second year of Biden’s presidency was in the second year of Biden’s vice presidency.

Anti-government protests in the Druze region of Syria enter their second week with dictator Bashar Assad burned in effigy.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) stated that people like the Soros family have the privilege to avoid suffering the consequences of the lax prosecution policies they back

Canada’s National Post on Tuesday published the results of a poll that show nearly a third of Canadians believe assisted suicide should be offered to homeless people who are weary of their lives.

The United States, through mass illegal and legal immigration, is importing generations of poverty as the children of immigrants now account for 4-in-9 of all poor children living in the nation, the New York Times reveals.

A coalition of public health advocates called the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) has issued an unusually strong condemnation of UNICEF for supporting the use of a highly processed paste to feed impoverished children. IBFAN claimed the scientific trials cited by UNICEF to recommend the paste as safe and effective were compromised by its manufacturers, including Nestle, Heinz, and especially French food company Nutriset.

British actor Idris Elba used the elite, champagne-soaked world of canapes and billionaires that is the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos to decry global food poverty and “the unjustness of half the world eating and half the world

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released a report with great fanfare on Tuesday that estimated the world’s population has passed 8 billion, with most of the growth occurring in low-income regions such as sub-Saharan Africa.

A family in Venezuela required on average the equivalent of 28.32 months’ worth of the country’s minimum wage to be able to properly afford food during September, according to data published by the Center for Documentation and Social Analysis of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers (CENDAS-FVM) on Sunday.

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful and confrontational sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, on Friday scoffed at South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s offer of economic assistance in exchange for denuclearization as “foolish” and told Yoon to “shut his mouth.”

At least 27 people committed suicide in Afghanistan between May and July, the Kabul-based Tolo News reported on Tuesday.

Extreme poverty has recently forced girls in rural Zimbabwe to use dried cow dung as an alternative to sanitary pads during menstrual cycles, Africanews reported on Monday.

China’s ruling Communist Party gifted the parliament of Zimbabwe — a severely impoverished nation that regularly struggles to feed its own citizens — a new luxury building on Wednesday, with Xinhua, China’s official state press agency, describing the opulent space as a “six-story building [that] is a fine piece of magnificent architecture.”

The world faces the prospect of a mass starvation “catastrophe” driven by an unprecedented food shortage, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres warned Friday.

An analysis from WalletHub revealed that Washington, DC, is at the bottom of the list (Number 51) in most equality categories and overall.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a study this week which showed a higher firearm homicide rate in 2020 and pointed to poverty as a factor in the increase. 

The head of Tesco has warned that people in the UK are facing “real food poverty for the first time in a generation”.

The state of Georgia is selecting women by race for a guaranteed income pilot program. The program, called In Her Hands, will give as many as 650 poor black women $850 a month, no strings attached.

As the U.N.’s COP26 summit gets underway on Sunday, a lone voice is pushing back on the existential threat of so-called climate change.

Six million people in Spain are in severe poverty, a figure that has increased by 50 per cent since 2018 as the pandemic fuels even more economic problems for Spaniards.

Pope Francis warned Saturday of “the worsening of multiple converging political and environmental crises,” singling out “hunger, climate, nuclear weapons.”

The Biden administration is permanently increasing food stamps, or SNAP, by 25 percent for some 45M recipients.

China celebrated its vast and growing economic power during the 100th birthday celebration for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Thursday, with dictator Xi Jinping humblebragging that his party has achieved its first centenary goal of “building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.”

New York City politicians are promising billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to push down housing costs they are also pushing up by supporting illegal migration into the city.

Pope Francis said Monday that poverty is not a natural condition of human beings but always a consequence of the selfishness of others.

A man from Miami Gardens, Florida, who overcame poverty with grit and determination is using his story to help others facing similar challenges.