The U.S. is by far the biggest single donor of foreign assistance in the world through the agency known as USAID, which ...

In a one-room clinic in rural Madagascar, a wide-eyed baby boy named Mercia watched as his mother tore open a packet of something that looked like peanut butter. Mercia devoured the paste, leaving ...

Social Security is helping more than just older adults as more children start to live with their grandparents.

Having gone right round the world in the course of this series, I think it is time to return to England. After all, that is ...

In the last three weeks alone, since President Trump took office, there have been significant changes in the healthcare ...

The U.K. seized upon a public health crisis to dismantle its development agency. The U.S. is mobilizing around a manufactured ...

Labour's rightward shift to counter the threat of Nigel Farage's Reform is doomed to fail and will only hasten voter exodus ...

A new World Bank report has revealed a sobering outlook for poverty eradication, projecting that 622 million people will still live in extreme poverty by 2030 despite decades of global efforts to end ...

In an opening address, the pope, lamented that throughout the world, children’s rights “are daily trampled upon and ignored.” ...

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Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to ...

The Trump administration and billionaire ally Elon Musk moved to eradicate the agency that provides crucial aid that funds ...