While this revised measurement offers a somewhat rosier picture of progress (a drop of about eight percentage points in the last 50 years), today's poverty figures are still pretty bleak no matter how ...

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Political cartoons about women’s suffrage ... “When we think about what are problems today, still there are women in poverty, women trying to make a living while having kids and who want ...

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In Oklahoma, funding cuts are wreaking havoc on everything from community centers to reading programs to disability services ...

A skimpy, bits-and-pieces approach to poverty has been shown to be a dismal failure throughout all of human history. Ref: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1310/S00277 ...

Poverty alleviation has been the most important part of the people's livelihood, and President Xi Jinping is most concerned about it. On March 8 at a meeting with Hunan Province deputies during ...

Poverty is the great thief of time ... afternoon homework and watching Saturday morning cartoons, snuggled on the couch in pajamas. Despite the indestructible myth of the poor as lazy, many ...