This chart shows the number of people worldwide affected by these indicators of multidimensional poverty.

Why a white fast-food worker in Mississippi who never started college is the statistical epitome of a low-wage worker 615_McDonalds_Hiring_Reuters.jpg One in four U.S. workers -- or nearly 40 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as ...

It is hard to imagine a child growing up in our community with little or no hope for a bright future. Unfortunately, we know that living in poverty can destroy hope in the hearts of children. United ...

New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

Newly published data show that 5.2 million children in the United Kingdom – 36 percent of all children in the country – live in poverty. While the government announced a Child Poverty Taskforce to ...

El Salvador faces a great opportunity to accelerate poverty reduction. Although poverty rates have dropped significantly over the past two decades, extreme poverty remains a challenge: by 2023, around ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — City Council Vice President LaShay D. Harris released a 200+ page report detailing 13 initiatives to enhance the lives of Rochester’s children. A December report by The Children’s ...

Bill Gates is calling for a change in the fight against climate change by shifting the focus away from reducing carbon emissions to fighting poverty and preventing disease and hunger. In an essay ...

CARE CEO Michelle Nunn (pictured here, center right, in Zambia) leads efforts that helped more than 50 million people last year. BY FastCo Works From poverty to wars to climate change, more and more ...

Poverty has risen steeply in Nigeria even as Africa’s most—populous country undertakes reforms designed to deliver economic growth, according to a new report from the World Bank. The number of ...

Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as flophouses. Then in 2017, she met 11-year-old Mikal in a hotel lobby.