A new report by Oxfam has found the richest 10 percent of the world’s population produce half of the Earth’s climate-harming fossil fuel em...

“Near the metro station sits a woman of uncertain age. Women’s hair is confused and dirty, her head bowed in grief. The woman sits on the di...

Last week President Obama committed the cardinal sin of calling out Fox News (according to Fox News) on their downright pejorative coverage...

Although they say they're concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and ...

An article that recently came out in Rolling Stone, titled “Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail,” by Matt Taibbi, asserts that the government ...

Whenever one of the US cities gets a star turn as host of some super-sparkly event, such as a national political gathering or the Super Bowl...

Earlier this month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg perfectly described a day in the life of your average homeless New Yorker. “You can arrive in yo...

In 1994, three years before her death, journalist Christopher Hitchens made this documentary asking if Mother Teresa 's reputation wa...

An Oxford college is being sued for allegedly discriminating against poor students after it rejected applications from postgraduates who cou...

Feeding the homeless has been banned in major cities all over America.  Other cities that have not banned it outright have put so many requi...

UK Charities have warned that official figures showing a 14% rise in people classed as homeless are just the "tip of the iceberg",...

Higher benefits for British poor families could do more harm than good, Iain Duncan Smith claimed last night, as feckless parents will only...

Yesterday morning during a speech at the Family Research Council in Washington, Michele Bachmann, US Republican Presidential Candidate , bas...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty than they have ever measured before.  I...

It is unheard of for aid groups such as Medecins Sans Frontieres or Medicins du Monde to have to take over the role of providing basic med...

Nearly one in six Americans are living in poverty. That is the result of the US Census Bureau's annual report. The number of Americans...

One month after major disturbances were provoked by the August 4 police killing of Mark Duggan in north London, the Metropolitan Police in t...

The number of laws criminalizing poverty increased during the recession as the housing and homelessness crisis in America worsened. Since 20...

A spate of exceptionally brutal rapes in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has shocked India. Many of the victims were young girls. Uttar...