topic: poverty

In the last US presidential election there was little mention of an agenda to improve the lives of the roughly 15% of Americans who live in...

Albanian poet Migjeni's short prose piece heralding the new year in 1937, only one year before his untimely death at the young age of 27...

Most people who move to Malindi, a small, sleepy resort town on Kenya’s coast, are exiles of one sort or another. The Italians, who form a...

For nearly the past twenty years, poor New Yorkers who have turned to welfare have been required to work in the Work Experience Program as...

March 5, 2011: The Fire Hollowed eyes. Glazed looks. Disoriented and displaced in their own neighborhood. Wandering aimlessly. Clutching at...