Poverty in Armenia has been on the rise in recent years. A report from the World Bank last year says 28 percent of the people in Armenia live below the poverty level. Southland photographer Sara ...

During a week when some of the nation’s most powerful decision-makers will be in town, an exhibit featuring photos taken by the foremost experts on poverty — those who live it, daily — will be on ...

In 1887 a police reporter named Jacob Riis stormed the tenements of New York armed with flashlight powder-an explosive form of magnesium that he would be among the first to enlist as camera flash-in ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A series of photographs on hunger in India that show villagers posing next to tables full of food has sparked a backlash online and been branded as exploitative ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

Over 37.9 million Americans currently live below the poverty line. With more than 11 percent of the American population struggling to afford basic necessities like food, housing, and healthcare, it is ...