And this isn't just about cities. Rural America tells the same story. Stilwell, Oklahoma, a small Republican-majority town, ...

Hundreds of Poor People’s Campaign leaders are heading to Capitol Hill next week to demand lawmakers address death by poverty in the United States.

Brazil will soon hand over the G20 presidency to South Africa, with a new initiative aimed at tackling poverty. The climate crisis also continues to be of critical importance in South Africa and ...

It’s easy to think that the United States should focus only on its own economy in a time like this when unemployment is so high. However, ignoring global poverty will hurt the United States in ...

Since the 1960s, America has made major strides in poverty reduction, and yet, there are still 35 million people living in poverty in the United States. What’s more, poverty would be twice as ...

Mr. Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, is the director of its Eviction Lab and the author of “Poverty, by America” and “Evicted.” The United States has a poverty problem. A third of the ...