MILWAUKEE COURIER — When talking about how we move Milwaukee forward, poverty must be a primary topic of discussion.
LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Having a full-time job does not guarantee economic security, according to the updated ALICE Report for Louisiana published by the United Way
THE AFRO — Author Lamont Carey’s latest book, The Transition: From One Hellhole to Another, continues his searing narrative about the perils of mass incarceration, which...
SAN ANTONIO OBSERVER — 50 year serves as a great opportunity to look back and see how far race in America has come and according to...
By Joshua Coello Do you ever imagine what kids from Oakland go through on a daily? Do you wonder if your house bills are paid? Well,...
Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis presented a report this week on the correlation between poverty, substandard housing and health inequities in Oakland neighborhoods, speaking...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee joined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, House Democrats, and anti-poverty experts at a House Democratic Steering and Policy hearing...
(Bleacher Report) – With his entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August, Jerome Bettis is ramping things up with a media circuit discussing his life and professional...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Toilets are taken for granted in the industrialized West, but still are a luxury for a third of...
By Congresswoman Barbara Lee An article in the recent Post Newspaper, “Oakland is Losing Its Racial, Age and Economic Diversity,” highlights the growing crisis of...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Global resolve to rescue impoverished children from lives of squalor, disease and hunger has fallen short, with economic...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency is warning that unless the world focuses on the most disadvantaged youngsters in...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency is warning that unless the world focuses on the most disadvantaged youngsters in...
(Slate) – People often assume that the poor are less competent than the wealthy. Some even suggest that the poor have flawed values or ways of thinking....
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Black America is in a state of emergency, and what’s happened in Baltimore, Ferguson,...
ROME (AP) — The number of hungry people around the world has dropped to 795 million from over a billion a quarter-century ago despite natural...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist President Obama recently participated in a long overdue panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University. As regular readers of...
Malcolm Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — The very poorest of the poor can be helped with a program that includes providing goats, sheep,...
Malcolm Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — The very poorest of the poor can be helped with a program that includes providing goats, sheep,...
(Slate) – President Obama appeared on a Georgetown-sponsored public policy panel Tuesday and, in addition to making everyone laugh a few times, he participated for about...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn’t your typical panel discussion: President Barack Obama sat down Tuesday with leading thinkers from the left and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The recent Department of Justice report on police and court practices in Ferguson, Mo. put a much needed spotlight...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist There are many different manifestations of racism in America and throughout the world. But there is not a...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist More than 88,000 people have applied to enter the “poor door” at a new luxury condominium tower on the...
Adam Nagourney and Jack Healy, THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPTON, Calif. (The New York Times) — Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in this working-class city, tells...