Tag: poverty

Barack Obama has moved on from Chicago onto the White House. In the meantime, his hometown has been crumbling in poverty and unemployment.
RT's Anastasia Churkina travels to the forgotten turned dangerous neighborhoods of the city.

Without well-rounded meals and education, poor children almost always become poor adults. Shakira tells NEWSWEEK about her fight against that trend.

The Colombian pop singer Shakira, whose 2006 hit "Hips Don't Lie" is among the bestselling songs in history, has also made a name for herself around the world by championing the cause of early-childhood development. At the age of 18, she put much of the money she made from her budding music career into starting up the Barefoot Foundation, which has built six schools for poor children displaced by civil war in Colombia.

Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive a sure sign the world's richest country faces economic crisis