Poverty is a crisis for America. It’s even more heart wrenching when it involves children who don’t know if they will have a meal before bed or one before school starts in the morning. And sadly, ...

Of the nearly 1 million people living in Marion County, more than 167,000—almost 18 percent—live in poverty. The rate increases to a staggering 25 percent for children under the age of 18. Breaking ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...