206 million Indian children face at least one deprivation. One third face two or more, spanning health, nutrition, education, ...

A fire in a densely populated and impoverished area in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has burned or damaged 1,500 shanties, ...

Further, development-aid cuts could lead to 4.5 million additional under-five deaths by 2030 and push six million children ...

Black gold promises to transform the sleepy backwater into the new Qatar. Yet, so far, it has brought more hardship to its ...

Millions in India’s poorest state began voting Thursday in a contest seen as a barometer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support after his tumultuous year in office. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, ...

Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian influencer has been accused of engaging in “poverty tourism” after filming himself “surviving” in an Indian slum, as seen in a viral Instagram video. “I ...

It turns out, Houston is now the poorest of the 25 most populous cities in the U.S. According to recent U.S. Census data, about 21.2 percent of Houstonians now live below the poverty line. That’s more ...

Wage growth is slowing down for all workers following the booming recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s dropping at the fastest pace for workers at the bottom end of the income spectrum.

President Trump on Monday announced plans to use the National Guard to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C. Mr. Trump also spoke about the homeless, and suggested New York City could be next. "We ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

Millions of people could lose access to federal food aid or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s latest analysis of President Trump’s marquee legislation. By Madeleine Ngo and ...

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday condemned the detention of Bengali-speaking Muslim citizens across the country, labelling them as "illegal" while ...