Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for ...

The Center for American Progress Task Force on Poverty outlines 12 key steps for cutting poverty in half in the next 10 years. Thirty-seven million Americans live below the official poverty line.

Poverty led to social problems across America. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr blamed poverty as a cause of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1965.

"Trade must not become another source of instability. It should serve development and global growth," said UNCTAD ...