Most people want to grow old - after all, the alternative is worse - but few want to be old, burdened by loneliness, isolation and the looming risk of poverty. "We thought: nobody is interested in old ...

A charity which has won a national award for its "micro jobs" scheme has said it is helping people out of poverty. Zink, based in Buxton, Derbyshire, set up the project in 2016 to provide small, paid ...

Rep. Brenda Carter devotes the last weeks of each year to helping people struggling to meet basic needs. The Pontiac resident said she will never forget her middle-class family falling into poverty ...

In early 2020, my daughter approached me about fostering two brothers she met through her work with Peace4Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a sense of community for youth in foster ...

Flint, Mich., has one of the country's highest rates of child poverty — something that got a lot of attention during the city's lead water crisis a decade ago. And a pediatrician who helped expose ...

An editorial titled “ Billionaires are not to blame for poverty ” that appeared recently in The Morning Call is another ...

A college education is not the ticket out of poverty that it used to be. A Dallas Morning News analysis of data from the U.S.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KCRG) - A Girl Scout from Cedar Falls received the Gold Award for her push to fight period poverty in schools, a project that led to the development of Iowa Bill HF883. Elle Smith, ...

Poverty is on the rise, but only among seniors, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual poverty report. Based on the official measure, which is a simple calculation based on pretax cash income ...

Title I is a federal program that distributes funds to schools where at least 50% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, a sign of prevalent poverty among any student body. Title I schools ...

Every day, all over the world—from Kenya to the US—millions of girls miss school because they lack the information and resources they need to navigate something totally natural, yet very challenging: ...