To identify the 25 cities hit hardest by extreme poverty, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed five-year data on concentrated poverty from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 American Community Survey. Metropolitan areas ...

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Siti lives in South Philadelphia with her husband and two children. They have trouble keeping pace with inflation, she says. (Emma Lee/WHYY) This story is from Young, Unhoused and Unseen, a podcast ...

Labour exploitation including forced labour is endemic at the base of global tea and cocoa supply chains, according to a pioneering international study published by researchers at the University of ...

When survivors of childhood sexual abuse tell their own stories in court or through government inquiries, they often describe the pervasive personal impact across many aspects of their life. In the ...

A 15-year effort to implement eight goals adopted by world leaders at the start of the new millennium has helped lift more than one billion people out of extreme poverty, enabled more girls to go to ...

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A new report released by the UNSW Sydney and ACOSS Poverty and Inequality Partnership shows how poverty and inequality were dramatically reduced in 2020 but have increased ever since. COVID, ...

Ana Helfer’s marriage became a nightmare. Now, she and her three children are trying to heal. By Remy Tumin Careen Williams is raising a son with autism and pica. His meltdowns aggravated an old ...

Number of Children in Poverty in Households in Which One or More Adults Smoke Table 3 shows estimated numbers of children in poor households in which one or two parents smoke, by marital status of the ...