The Second Book in the Fascinating Memoir from Touro University Press Chronicles Shtetl Life as Never Described Before ...

and yet internally, Israel acts more like a shtetl than a state. (For those not conversant with Yiddish in general and the word shtetl in particular, it’s just as it sounds: a tiny state – or ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. President Donald Trump’s first month in office has been dizzying for U.S ...

The United States has dramatically cut the budgets of overseas development and aid programmes, with multiyear contracts pared down by 92 percent, or $54bn, the State Department has said.

The share of New Yorkers in poverty is nearly double the national average, according to a report from Columbia University and an anti-poverty group. By Benjamin Oreskes Benjamin Oreskes reported ...

Some 700 million people around the globe live in extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as living on less than $2.15 per day. Ending that poverty, one of the United Nations’ Sustainable ...

"The absence of key officials at the G20 finance meetings further underscores the diminishing commitment to global poverty reduction at a time when it's needed most," said Dirk Willem te Velde ...

Sir Keir has faced flak from the left of the Labour Party for prioritising a boost for Britain’s armed forces over spending on public services or tackling child poverty. open image in gallery ...

Prior research has pointed to the fundamental economic challenges of entrepreneurship in the context of poverty. Cultural and institutional factors also play a role. Researchers have argued ...

The poverty line is established to determine the minimum income a person or household requires to fulfill their basic needs. However, that amount, the income necessary to satisfy one’s basic ...

Millions of people would be pushed into, or deeper into, poverty under Republican proposals that Congress could consider this year. A range of spending cuts and other proposals that House Republicans ...

Throughout the Deep South, discriminatory housing, education, employment and health care systems perpetuate poverty and hinder generational wealth accumulation, leaving many communities among the ...