Crunch time on poverty
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The annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington later this week should be anything but routine.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is starting a new program to help low-income students. Beginning next fall, students from families with income at-or-below federal poverty level
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The UK and other developed countries are meeting to plan ways to spend aid more effectively in poor countries.
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A small study conducted in a Boston neighborhood highlights the difficulty of affording heart-healthy food when you&#39;re a beneficiary of food stamps.
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It's time to give your funds a checkup.
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Welfare officials in Pennsylvania, California, Michigan have their work cut out for them when new rules take effect next month: find jobs for tens of thousands of people on welfare or risk losing millions in federal money.
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Proposals to help poor countries work their own way out of debt are being published by a Tory policy group.
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Englandâs most disadvantaged towns and cities will be the first to benefit from funding for new initiatives set out in this weekâs White Paper, the Government announced today.
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More workers than ever were living in poverty last year, and greater efforts need to be made to create more and better jobs if the world is going to achieve the target of halving poverty by 2015, according to a UN report released yesterday.
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Many Britons face retirement poverty unless they work longer or save more a government inspired report is expected to say on Tuesday.
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Editor, New Era:           As persons who are deeply concerned about hunger and poverty in our nation and throughout the world, my wife and I are joining with members of Bread for the World and other organizations in raising questions about the farm bill now being considered by Congress.
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After years of setting aside less for bad loans, time for some serious catch-up.
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BERLIN, Oct 4 (IPS) - Imagine the world's poorest trading their way  out of poverty. A grand vision indeed, but how to turn it into  reality?
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Want to retire in poverty and live a life of penury? Here are four good ways to get started.
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Comment is free: Ban Ki-moon: The negative aspects of the era of mobility too often overshadow its potential power: to bring millions out of poverty.
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The World Bank this morning is scheduled to release a report from its Independent Evaluation Group examining how effective bank programs have been over the past decade in relieving poverty. Details to come.
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Poverty leads to violence, the leaders of France and Brazil warned Monday in urging other nations to find ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor and help the more than 1 billion people who live on less than $1 per day.