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Economy

Number of global poor falls in half in official measure

May 6, 2014 4:00 am

Underprivileged children collect vegetable waste for consumption at a wholesale vegetable market on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Monday, April 21, 2014. India has some of the world's worst poverty and malnutrition with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people poor and half of the country's children malnourished. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Columnists

Poverty, not inequality, is the source of social ills

Shikha Dalmia -

May 1, 2014 4:00 am

Sargent Shriver, President Lyndon Johnson's poverty czar, predicted that welfare state programs would eliminate poverty by 1976. (AP File)

Columnists

Democratic Party seems to have forgotten about the poor

Mona Charen -

April 29, 2014 4:00 am

News

UN chief: 1 million South Sudanese may face famine

Edith Lederer -

April 16, 2014 11:27 pm

A November 2013 New York Post story about the Census Bureau providing false figures in the weeks before the 2012 general election was disturbing. (Photo: ThinkStock)

Beltway Confidential

Are government statistics deteriorating?

Michael Barone -

April 11, 2014 12:00 am

News

UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems

Seth Borenstein -

March 31, 2014 5:25 am

FILE- In this Feb. 25, 2014 file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference at P.S. 130 in New York. As state lawmakers settle in on a plan to fund pre-kindergarten in New York City, de Blasio is beginning to focus on other items in his progressive agenda. De Blasio will set his sights on massively expanding affordable housing, hiking wages for the working class and overhauling the city's recovery from Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Business

NYC mayor’s next big push: affordable housing

Jonathan Lemire -

March 30, 2014 12:20 pm

Columnists

It’s not about race — it’s about how liberalism doesn’t solve poverty

Star Parker -

March 29, 2014 12:00 am

News

Argentina cricket program targets slum poverty

Paul Byrne -

March 24, 2014 8:13 pm

In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Stony Brook University, students Ruby Escalera-Nater and Will Addison fill a bag of food to give to guests at the college's recently opened food pantry. Officials say there are a growing number of food pantries opening on college campuses across the country to assist students contending with rising education costs.(AP Photo/Frank Eltman)

Business

Food pantries on the rise at US college campuses

Frank Eltman -

March 15, 2014 4:14 pm

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Tag: Poverty

Number of global poor falls in half in official measure

Poverty, not inequality, is the source of social ills

Democratic Party seems to have forgotten about the poor

UN chief: 1 million South Sudanese may face famine

Are government statistics deteriorating?

UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems

NYC mayor’s next big push: affordable housing

It’s not about race — it’s about how liberalism doesn’t solve poverty

Argentina cricket program targets slum poverty

Food pantries on the rise at US college campuses

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