A forgotten Jewish community still thrives in the Caucasus. Once common across Eastern Europe, shtetl life disappeared—except for one place. This is the extraordinary story of the world’s last ...

Government delays child poverty strategy - leaving tens of thousands facing hardship The government's child poverty taskforce was due to report back this spring - but publication has now been ...

For the sad but true fact is that child poverty is the biggest cause of social division in Britain today, a scar on our national conscience, and a stain on the soul of the country. Seventy-five per ...

Touro University Press has now published the concluding volume of The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea, which has been widely acclaimed for its unprecedented honesty and vivid ...

In short, Israel’s shtetl -like atmosphere has a few frustrating elements – especially for anyone interested in ongoing news about the wider world. But its internal social benefits can’t be ...

When she was a child, Sheila Baslaw would sometimes ask her father about his own childhood, one of grinding poverty in a tiny Russian “shtetl,” or Jewish village, in the early 1900s. “He ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social ...

Pew Research Center found that poverty rates range greatly among Asian American groups. While 6% of Indian Americans live in poverty, the rate is 19% for Burmese Americans.

Florida’s higher poverty rates largely occur across the state’s panhandle. In Gadsden County, for example, one in four people live in poverty while two in five children do as well.

Titled “The Case Of The Missing Narrative: Hollywood, The Media and Jewish Poverty,” the survey finds that poor and working-class Jews are underrepresented in these fields relative to their ...

Millions of American families fell into poverty last year as the well of government-funded pandemic aid dried up and incomes shrank, according to new data from the U.S. Census. Children were ...

The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental ...