THE AFRO — Access to suitable health care and hospitals is already an issue of disparity in communities of color in several United States cities, yet...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — D.C.’s changing demographics and gentrification have made long-lasting concerns turn into blue hot-button issues that are further dividing the nation’s capital as it...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — Earlier this year, the U.S. Partnership on Mobility from Poverty published a report titled, Restoring the American Dream: What Would it Take to...
“Black women are the largest constituency in the United States that has no representation on the Supreme Court – we’ve never had a Black woman Supreme...
By Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) Growing up in a church parsonage, the eldest son of a fundamentalist Christian minister, grounded me securely in faith and...
By Freddie Allen Senior NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite relative improvement in job growth from 2013 to 2014, Black women continue to struggle in...
Eric Stern, SALON (Salon) – Who says the Koch brothers don’t care about the needy? Lost amid the noise of the presidential election is...
Susan Heavey and Doina Chiacu, Reuters via FOX BUSINESS (FoxBusiness.com) – American household incomes lost ground last year as the poverty rate remained flat, a...
Thomas C. Frohlich and Alexander Kent, 24/7 WALL ST. (247WallSt.com) – The United States added 3.2 million jobs in 2014, a greater addition to...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our stock market has been correcting itself for quite some time. It appears that the major correction is on...
(The Atlantic) – People who pay attention to poverty, including the poor themselves, know one thing all too well: Over the past few decades, anti-poverty policy...
JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Income inequality will remain a persistent problem despite brighter prospects for U.S. companies globally, according to an annual...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Reforms proposed to the Child Tax Credit by the Center for American Progress could help to reduce...
(Salon) – In the 1960s, the Lyndon Johnson administration launched an official War on Poverty. Needless to say, poverty has emerged victorious. The noble and necessary...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For many Americans living in poverty, housing vouchers mean the difference between having a home of your...
(BBC) – In the US, poverty, deprivation and exploitation draw thousands of its own children down into a dark underworld that offers few ways out. It...
(Bleacher Report) – With his entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August, Jerome Bettis is ramping things up with a media circuit discussing his life and professional...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Toilets are taken for granted in the industrialized West, but still are a luxury for a third of...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Global resolve to rescue impoverished children from lives of squalor, disease and hunger has fallen short, with economic...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency is warning that unless the world focuses on the most disadvantaged youngsters in...
(Slate) – People often assume that the poor are less competent than the wealthy. Some even suggest that the poor have flawed values or ways of thinking....
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Black America is in a state of emergency, and what’s happened in Baltimore, Ferguson,...
ROME (AP) — The number of hungry people around the world has dropped to 795 million from over a billion a quarter-century ago despite natural...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist President Obama recently participated in a long overdue panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University. As regular readers of...
Malcolm Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — The very poorest of the poor can be helped with a program that includes providing goats, sheep,...
