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Poverty. It’s a political issue. It’s a social justice issue. And it’s an education issue. In fact, it’s the elephant in the room whenever we talk about education in America. And a mighty elephant it ...

argument that poverty directly causes terrorism is simple-minded. A more compelling argument can be made that rising levels of material well-being, and with them expectations of social and personal ...

Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of wealth could harm democracies.

The phone rang aboard the presidential jet as it swept west toward Texas. It was White House Staffer Larry O’Brien with the news that the House had just passed Lyndon Johnson’s anti-poverty bill. When ...

Keria Nkumbo, a dusty trading centre on the border of Meru and Tharaka Nithi, carries within its daily struggles the unspoken truth of Kenya’s politics: When poverty hardens into a way of life, ...

A former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi has disclosed that his involvement in the political system had been shaped by poverty and necessity. Amaechi made this remark at the National Conference ...

WASHINGTON — Every year, the Census Bureau uses a 40-year-old formula to determine how many poor people there are in America, a method that many experts think was outdated years ago. The Census Bureau ...

Buried amid Bill Clinton’s rhetorical smorgasbord on Wednesday night was a short but fascinating passage about Medicaid, the federal entitlement program for the poor and disabled. Here’s what Clinton ...