But even readers impressed with Author Farrell’s grimly powerful portraits of poverty are likely to be thrown off by their monotony, by his characters’ obsessed disgust with sexual and other ...

If you want to improve your finances, it may help to be aware of something called the cycle of poverty – and some of the many traps that keep you in it. What Is the Cycle of Poverty and How to ...

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.

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More questionable is that about 11.1 percent of Americans live in poverty despite this national wealth. However, the acceptance that poverty for some is an unfortunate consequence of free markets ...

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Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America?

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Her aim is “to document rarely seen moments illustrating faith, poverty, education and race ... through a mix of landscape images and striking portraits. Known predominantly for her painting ...

About 66% of all Syrian refugees live below the poverty line, reports the European ... mountainous Wadi Rum desert shooting the portraits, which depict family members elegantly posed in intimate ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...