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Parties woo South Africa's poorest voters with promise of basic income
RFI via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoWith a third of the population unemployed, poverty has dramatically increased in South Africa in the...
A new report on poverty challenges both Liberals and Conservatives
CBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoConservative Leader Pierre Poilievre understandably seized on a new report card released last week...
South Africa’s election could bring the biggest political shift since it became a democracy in 1994
ABC 26 New Orleans· 4 hours agoCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans will vote Wednesday to decide whether their country...
South Africa has failed its Black majority. Nelson Mandela’s political heirs may pay the price
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 2 hours agoThe ANC risks losing its parliamentary majority for the first time in post-apartheid South Africa,...
Poverty in Lebanon tripled over a decade, World Bank says
San Francisco Chronicle· 4 days agoPoverty in Lebanon tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country...
Britain’s class ceiling barely has a crack in it
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 hours ago“The classification is reminiscent of Charles Booth’s 19th century poverty maps,” wrote one social media user. “Who identifies as ‘criminal class?’ The...
As judicial fights get tougher, Southern Poverty Law Center looks to advocacy training
Alabama Reflector via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Southern Poverty Law Center’s Alabama office is developing a program to train people in the...
Living on $25,000: ALICEs who live paycheck to paycheck explain how they scrape together enough food...
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 15 hours agoSome families rely on food pantries and alternate income sources to get by. SNAP benefits are based...
Poverty in Lebanon more than tripled in past decade: World Bank
Al Jazeera· 4 days agoPoverty in Lebanon has more than tripled over the past 10 years, with the overall proportion of the...
More than 600,000 California Seniors Living in Poverty
Newsweek· 3 days agoMore than 660,000 older Americans in California are living below the poverty line, according to an...