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fight POverty once again The 1960s saw a challenge to the accepted view that poverty had disappeared. Today, we need to take up the cudgels again In 1967, Ken Coates [...]

Study is conducted to attend to the issue of the lack of support for poverty-stricken people living with HIV which was identified in the Potchefstroom district in the North-West Province in South Africa. Study shows that it is essential to focus on poverty-stricken people experience living with HIV-positive status before focusing on their needs for support.

Low-income families should be given assurances that they can afford to send their children to certain schools, according to the draft admissions code. The code, which has been circulated to [...]

As the Social Security Administration begins taking applications this month for the low-income subsidy under the new Medicare drug program, it will try to succeed where other federal programs have [...]

More than 20 percent of young children in two-parent immigrant families are poor, triple the poverty rate of children with U.S.-born parents. Lower wages among immigrants account for the higher [...]

Essential goods and services are failing to reach the most needy people, according to research by the National Consumer Council. Ethnic minority groups, people living in deprived areas and those [...]

Free markets have the cure for poverty, maybe, but politicians have voters THE bankers at an investment conference tried to sound bullish. One day, they said, Romania might catch up [...]

THE CLOSEST Keith Taylor ever came to being homeless was when he received a three-day pay-or-quit notice from his landlord. But then an unlikely character bailed him out in an [...]

History shows that when the citizens start to pry up the cobblestones the ruling elites should act with great caution Gaston slipped the blade of his knife between the stones. […]

It's a couple of weeks until Thanksgiving. It seems that only yesterday we were concerned about Y2K problems, an event that frankly turned out to be a real turkey. It's [...]

Building modern, affordable housing for the working poor, then selling it below cost doesn't make sense. That's why Catholics do it here. Sr. of St. Joseph Betty Adams is looking [...]

The church has something to say about the dilemmas of development. JESUS SAID THE POOR WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE WITH US. Some people have found this observation heartening. He also […]

All families face numerous challenges today in balancing work and family responsibilities, in creating a nurturing environment for their children, in coping with an increasing level of violence, and in [...]

AS WITH THE DROP in enrolment in Medicaid, the Federal-state medical insurance program for low-income Americans [see editorial, 7/31], participation in the United States Department of Agriculture's food stamp program [...]

Where social justice meets auto repair St. Francis of Assisi Parish of Ann Arbor, Mich., had done everything right. They had launched a program to give used autos to working [...]

In his first meeting with the press on March 16, 2013, Pope Francis told journalists, 'How I would like a church which is poor and for the poor!' Since becoming [...]

For many years, Maryknoll Fr. Bob McCahill has been sending an annual letter to friends at Christmastime, chronicling his experience living among the people of Bangladesh. Since 1984, NCR has [...]

ABUJA, NIGERIA * In the midst of a recession in religious vocations in Europe and North America, Africa is experiencing a vocations boom. Nigeria's nuns give every indication that religious [...]