The leaders of the 189-nation International Monetary Fund and its sister organization the World Bank are laying out their visions for the future, hoping to achieve a world with less extreme poverty and more economic growth.
Read moreCourt-ordered community service in Los Angeles County negatively impacts low-income communities of color who can’t afford fines and are forced to choose between the equivalent of three weeks of full-time unpaid work or jail time, a new study says.
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The nation is hurtling toward an economic recession, according to experts at a panel discussion on poverty Tuesday – and they’re bracing for it to hit California especially hard.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
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FEMA buys flood-prone homes more often in wealthy, populous counties than in poor, rural areas, even though lower-income rural areas may be more likely to flood frequently, a new study finds.
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The planet is heating. Island nations are slipping away. A Pakistan-India nuclear war could be a “bloodbath.” Governments aren’t working together like they used to. Polarization is tearing us apart. Killing. Migration. Poverty. Corruption. Inequality. Sovereignty violations. Helplessness. Hopelessness.
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The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year to its highest level in more than 50 years of tracking income inequality, according to Census Bureau figures.
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The number of Americans without health insurance grew by 1.9 million in 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
Read moreThe Trump administration issued a rule Monday that allows the government to deny green cards or visas to people who rely on public benefit programs, or if they might need such programs, including food stamps, Medicaid and housing subsidies, in the future.
Read moreA federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday that orders Galveston County, Texas, to provide defense attorneys at bail hearings for poor felony defendants.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss wrongful-death claims against Prince George’s County, Md., involving a severely ill man who died in police custody after being arrested for failing to pay a bus fare.
Read moreThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hold an investigation into whether the Philadelphia bail system suffers from systemic failures.
Read moreDespite the country’s low unemployment rate, 18% of U.S. children, or 13.4 million, are living in poverty and inequities among black, Latino and Native American youth compared to their white peers have persisted for nearly three decades, according to a new report.
Read moreA federal judge granted class certification and a preliminary injunction to plaintiffs who were detained in St. Louis jails, often for more than a month, because they were unable to afford bail.
Read moreMichigan’s practice of suspending the licenses of indigent drivers who don’t pay fines and court costs does not violate their right to due process, a divided Sixth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday.
Read moreSan Francisco is about to require brick-and-mortar retailers to take cash as payment, joining Philadelphia and the state of New Jersey in banning a growing paperless practice that critics say discriminates against low-income people who may not have access to credit cards.
Read moreThe toll on public health from climate change is a heavy one and disproportionately affects children, women, the elderly and the poor, a group of health experts told lawmakers Tuesday.
Read moreClimate change has sped up the melting of the polar ice caps and now researchers with Stanford University say the global economy is another casualty, with poor countries more severely affected by rising temperatures.
Read moreA federal judge struck down the work requirements for Medicaid recipients in Arkansas and Kentucky on Wednesday, effectively blocking the Trump administration’s plan to revamp the country’s healthcare program for the poor.
Read moreEthiopia is banning street begging by Syrian nationals who have startled people by showing up in growing numbers in recent months in major cities around hotels and mosques.
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