A Short Story by John Cheever December 1949 Christmas is a sad season. The phrase came to Charlie an instant after the alarm clock had...

Steve Liss's photo reveals the abject poverty of the most vulnerable Americans.  Though difficult to measure, poverty debilitates...

The December topic at Ethics Forum is poverty and serving the poor, for as it is said, "Tis the season of giving." During...

The ancient custom in Ireland was to bury unbaptised children, strangers, suicides and criminals in mass graves. Here is a map of all of t...

Organ trafficking and illicit transplant surgeries have infiltrated global medical practice. But despite the evidence of widespread crimin...

Last night House Hunters International (HGTV) aired a show about an American couple from Washington DC who moved to Zimbabwe. The HGTV narr...

The Obama administration wants to use some of the billions of dollars in frozen assets belonging to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi and his go...

More Americans are poor, but fewer of them are suffering the effects of crime, an intriguing fact for social scientists. The US Census Bur...

Roberto Abadie has just published The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects . It is a startling look int...

Kenyan children in acute and chronic pain suffer needlessly because of government policies that restrict access to inexpensive pain medicine...

Time Magazine reports that 24% of Americans believe that the current occupant of the Oval Office is a Muslim. The White House felt it necess...

LONDON: More people are mired in poverty in eight Indian states than in the 26 poorest African countries, according to a new UN-backed meas...

Harvard professor Robert I. Rotberg is the director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University and ...

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." - Aristotle Poverty is relative, is it not? When the average American complains...

KARACHI, Sept 14: An act of charity turned into a tragedy near Karachi’s Khori Garden on Monday when a stampede caused the death of 20 women...

Local doctors and experienced news correspondents are shocked by the appalling conditions being endured by some 2,000 Christians in downtown...

More than 500 undocumented migrants in Morocco from several sub-Saharan African countries have benefited from voluntary return over the last...

Teenager Moses Baranuic, a Moldovan immigrant living in Boise Idaho, found and returned $10,000. Moldova is probably the poorest nation in w...

Four years ago, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre published the Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05. This was the first major international dev...

August 29th, 2008 by Dr. Amy K. Glasmeier The annual release of federal statistics on poverty rates and the number of Americans without medi...