In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more ...

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In Bangladesh, programs targeting ultra-poor, rural households can help families escape extreme poverty. However, the ...

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In recent decades, Cherokee Nation has continued to prosper in cultural preservation, health care and economic development by leaps and bounds. Although poverty rates decline year over year in tribal ...

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In January, it will be sixty years since Lyndon Johnson, in his first State of the Union address, announced an “unconditional war on poverty.” Johnson’s goal was to eliminate acute economic need among ...

The land of the free is suffering from a "self-inflicted" injustice when it comes to poverty, experts say, as the rich are getting richer while thousands living without sufficient means die every year ...

Mayor Mary Sheffield is reshuffling city departments and has created new positions to tackle poverty and homelessness in the ...

Poverty in the Philippines is neither a mystery, nor an accident. And certainly, it is not what the poor want for themselves ...

By Catarina Demony LONDON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Poverty in Britain has deepened, according to a report released on Tuesday, ...

The proportion of Filipino families who consider themselves poor dramatically decreased to 37%, or an estimated 9.8 million ...