What do twenty pounds of bricks feel like? Would it be easier to carry them on your back or your head? At what age would a child be allowed to work in a brickyard? For second-grader Emily Salibian, ...

Assessing progress toward the SDGs is a complex, ongoing process. Achievement of the SDGs varies significantly across regions ...

A social worker of Netaji Sadharan Pathagar donates some food to the vulnerable people during the coronavirus crisis. To contain COVID-19, governments have imposed the great lockdown in spite of its ...

A woman fills a can with water at a makeshift camp for internally displaced people in Aden, Yemen, March 15, 2022. Pope Francis said the real battles people should be fighting are ones against hunger, ...

I often hear American Muslims, explaining why they fast to people who don’t, say they do it to "feel with the poor." Individual intentions aside, this is a theologically inaccurate claim. The Quran ...

You get a front row seat to poverty and hunger if you live in Jackson, Monroe or Vernon counties. If you don’t know it, you’re lucky. Honestly, you may have rose-colored glasses. These three counties ...

The COVID-19 crisis has led to the first rise in extreme poverty and food insecurity in 20 years. Is it realistic to end these two scourges once and for all? Ahead of the Commission for Social ...

WalletHub has listed neediest cities in the country, based on child poverty, food insecurity and uninsured rates. One ...

Marchers walk along S. First Avenue during a march from the Catholic Worker House to a listening session at Mercer Park in Iowa City, Iowa, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021. Members of the 16-group Fund ...

World leaders will gather at the U.N. to address poverty, hunger and inequality. NPR's A Martinez talks to Amanda Gorman, who reads part of a poem she wrote for an appearance at the General Assembly.