We need to see and understand what the people in our community deal with,” Georgia state Rep. Teddy Reese told the Ledger-Enquirer in an interview about his new position.

Halting foreign aid clearly hurts overseas communities, but the impacts have hit hard domestically, too. In fact, halting aid ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10 percent by the late 1990s was among the great U.S. triumphs of the 20th ...

It's a response to the country's shortfall of millions of homes that has led to skyrocketing prices, plunging millions into ...

There’s just no way to do those cuts in Alabama without significantly harming children, seniors, and people with disabilities." ...

President Trump signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Department of Education on Thursday. The idea isn't a ...

The most optimistic scenario shows about 330 million poor in 2012, up from about 280 million in 1990. Poverty reduction has been slowest in fragile countries, the report notes, and rural areas remain ...

Arief Anshory Yusuf, a poverty expert from Padjajaran University, the free meals program has the potential to create up to 1.9 million new jobs and reduce the poverty rate to 5.8 percent if it is ...

In 2015, the Oklahoma oil magnate Harold Hamm got a glimpse of the future and didn’t like what he saw. Renewable energy, he ...

Active bilateral cooperation to reduce poverty is deemed by the Chinese Foreign Ministry as a highlight of the comprehensive cooperation between the two countries. The Central Asian nation has ...

Both the Liberal and Conservative parties have promised broad tax cuts as they work to win over voters in the early days of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Jeff Moore Contributing writer The new chief executive officer of Southwest Georgia United appeared before the Cordele City Commission to introduce ...