Despite Bangladesh’s strong national poverty reduction, research by IUBAT scholars shows that nearly half the population in ...

An new article published in Social Work in Mental Health outlines the persistent systemic and structural social injustices ...

A Venn diagram shows the number of Europeans who were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2021. (Eurostat via Courthouse News) (CN) — A report released Thursday by the European Union’s ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...

Pope Francis met with priests of Rome’s 17th prefecture — which sits on the eastern edge of the metropolitan area — in the Parish of Santa Maria Madre dell’Ospitalità in Villa Verde on Thursday ...

Overdose rates are higher in areas where people live in poverty and even higher among people of color living in poverty. In the last decade in Maryland, the proportion of opioid-overdose deaths ...

Environmental pollution and poverty are often discussed as separate crises, but they are deeply intertwined, forming a ...

Before he died on Sept. 4 at the age of 99, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton left us with stark warnings about President Donald Trump and the American right. One of the country’s leading experts on how ...

This month marks 50 years since Congress created the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Designed to combat poverty among people with disabilities and older adults who have little income and ...

WE recently celebrated International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10, and we all know that every person deserves to be born and live free. Everyone has the right to life, food, clean water, freedom and ...