My ten-year-old was inspired by this film about how Muslim and Hindu children rise together out of poverty.read more

Wisdom from the Author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.read more

On this International Women’s Day, let’s pressure our government to attack poverty that disproportionately affects rural women and to promote policies that bring justice for all.read more

Poverty, which descends from war, which engenders war, equals danger as surely as war does. It’s the ceiling of a collapsing room.read more

Our state and federal governments should be boosting programs to help the poor, not cutting back on them.read more

Candidates this season must stop ignoring a huge moral issue: poverty.read more

There’s no moral reason to only talk about middle class tax cuts when the poverty rate keeps zooming up.read more

Is poverty but “a spur to better, more responsible behavior” or does it crush an individual’s freedom?read more

Hard economic times are even harder when you have a disability. But poverty and disability don’t have to be synonymous — if we design our policies well.read more

With the economy in a tailspin, pundits and elected officials are talking a lot about the middle class — and hardly at all about the poor. But during President Bush’s years in office, poverty increased dramatically.read more