South Carolina uses five categories to classify its elementary, middle and high schools on its report card: unsatisfactory, below average, average, good and excellent. These have been designated by ...

Mutahi Ngunyi, the political scientist, ruffled feathers the other day with his Twitter posts on Raila Odinga and his retinue of ‘poverty stricken Luos.’ While Ngunyi apologised, those who frequent ...

Over 37.9 million Americans currently live below the poverty line. With more than 11 percent of the American population struggling to afford basic necessities like food, housing, and healthcare, it is ...

Locals in one of the UK's most poverty-stricken areas have warned that its council is 'neglecting pockets of deprivation at its peril'. Caia Park, Wrexham, is the largest council housing estate in ...

LUSAGYUGH, Armenia (AP) — The local tax inspector would visit Alik Stepanyan's small fishery in an Armenian mountain village every month to collect a bribe. Each time, Stepanyan would hand over 15 to ...

Pope Leo is drawing the world's attention to poverty. A new Vatican document released today describes caring for the poor as an essential Christian task. Joining us now to talk about the first major ...

Significant Improvement in the Living Standards of the Poor Through poverty alleviation, there has been a substantial ...

The promise of political freedom, hard-won across the African continent, has for too long been betrayed by the lingering spectre of economic destitution, a cycle often perpetuated by political ...