Detroit’s leadership doesn’t need more data to be reminded of what to do right now. Despite available data that has shown ...

Mayor Mary Sheffield is reshuffling city departments and has created new positions to tackle poverty and homelessness in the ...

Nearly two weeks into her role as Detroit mayor, Mary Sheffield has hit the ground running with some major moves in the city.

The nonprofit UMOS has until September to spend $2.1 million in federal anti-poverty funds that went unused last year while ...

Sarah Hemminger was idling at a stoplight when she had her Big Idea. She was driving to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was working on a graduate degree. Nearby towered Paul ...

WARREN — There may have been a name change, but the charitable intentions are the same. “We have renamed our annual ‘Friends of the Poor Walk’ to ‘Steps of Hope’ to reflect a spirit that is both more ...

" If you lift your hands in worship, you better get your feet ready to walk," Bishop Bruce Alan Lewandowski said at the vigil ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Soaring global military expenditures are reducing essential investments in health, education and job creation and don’t guarantee peace, the United Nations chief warned on ...

A new strategy to fight poverty in Manitoba is intentionally lacking in detail in order to keep the government's response ...

What should you read to prepare for a career in fighting poverty? That’s the question Tricia Newman, a graduate student in Utah, raises on Poverty Think Tank, a blog she writes “about me thinking ...

The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional ...