Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project.

Low-income older Americans on average die nearly a decade earlier than wealthier people, a new analysis finds.

“Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their ...

“Can you be a Christian and own a BMW?” This question came up more than once in the private Christian school where I started my teaching career. Many of the students came from wealthy families, so you ...

In an empty chapel in weather-miserable Banneux, Belgium, Aloysius Schwartz made a vow to spend the remainder of his life serving the humiliated and disregarded. Louvain’s lone American seminarian had ...

Extreme Poverty Scheme to the Rescue After being surveyed and included in the Extreme Poverty Eradication Scheme, ...

Editor’s note: The Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade on June 24 in a 6 to 3 decision, returning the issue of abortion restrictions to the states. America has published several essays on the decision ...

Nigeria’s life expectancy may continue to be low if poverty, hunger, food insecurity, and poor access to healthcare continue unchecked, leading experts ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 152, Special Issue: Extraction and beyond: people’s economic responses to restructuring in southern and central Africa (June 2017), pp. 189-203 (15 ...

Drugs have been a persistent problem in Pin Point, Ga., a tiny rural settlement best known as the birthplace of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Neighborhood leaders tried everything to chase ...

When the government announced its programme to eradicate extreme poverty, Chemnad panchayat member Mariyam Mahin, ensured ...