The Root

Tavis and Cornel's Solution to Poverty

Last summer PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley and author Cornel West embarked on an 18-city poverty tour to highlight the hardship of poor people. Despite a record number of Americans — one in two — ...

Understanding poverty's presence is just the first step | Opinion

Poverty Awareness Month also reminds us that no single organization, program, or sector can address poverty alone, writes ...
The Business Journals

Symptom and cause: Finding the solution to poverty

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A conversation with Tomeka Hart Wigginton, president and ...
The Michigan Daily

Perspectives on generational addiction and poverty in rural America

Documentary filmmakers Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing discuss the underlying causes of the opioid epidemic at the Poverty Solutions Series Saturday afternoon. Keith Allen-Melong/Daily. Buy this photo.
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Cyprus’ energy poverty a growing burden on households

Following the publication by the EU of ‘Justice-focused approach key to effective energy poverty solutions’, energy poverty in Europe was again in the news last week. This is based on a study ...
Houston Public Media

To 'graduate' from poverty, they can borrow to build a business. So why aren't they?

Dean Karlan (in blue shirt) meets with a group of refugees in southwest Uganda to hear about their experience with a program that offers loans to help them "graduate" from poverty. (Claire Harbage/NPR ...