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...
(The Washington Post) – Lawmakers in several states are urging limits on how welfare recipients use public benefits, suggesting that the poor are buying things like lobster, filet mignon, vacations aboard...
JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas law tells poor families that they can’t use cash assistance from the state to...
JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas law tells poor families that they can’t use cash assistance from the state to...
By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley News While the U.S. economy rebounds, persistent low wages are costing taxpayers approximately $153 billion every year in public support to...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer African-Americans continue to suffer disproportionately high rates of hunger and poverty despite the growing economy, according to an...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer African-Americans continue to suffer disproportionately high rates of hunger and poverty despite the growing economy, according to an...
(CBS News) – For all its apparent conveniences and perks, city living has never been easy or inexpensive. And income inequality is often most obvious...
Paul Hampel, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (STLToday.com)—Federal class-action lawsuits filed Sunday against the cities of Jennings and Ferguson allege that jails there operate as...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The racial differential in the poverty rate is staggering. Last time I checked, about 12 percent people in the United...
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