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The group has fed more than a million people in India and Pakistan.

The trio’s tax plans do contain elements aimed directly at middle- and working-class voters. Rubio proposes to expand the child tax credit and Bush wants to double the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is designed to help the working poor

Some of the world’s fanciest foods are going to New Yorkers who can’t afford even basic meat-and-potato meals.

From the left we often see tension between those who want to help the poor, and those who want to help the government. One recent example of this is the proposal to ban cash forwarded by Harvard’s Ken Rogoff.

The production of money in a free society is a matter of free association. Everybody from the miners to the owners of the mines, to the minters, and up to the customers who buy the minted coins — all benefit from the production of money.

A new analysis of nearly 4 million scientific articles finds that research is disproportionately focused on diseases that primarily afflict wealthy countries.

On both sides of the argument over the efficacy of the Universal Basic Income (UBI), there is the claim that the UBI might encourage unemployment.

The poor have become a “dirty word” in American politics, although they are still part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s unfinished agenda.

Oxfam is urging Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to push the World Bank to stop making land deals in developing countries.

More than 825,000 New Yorkers do not have bank or credit union accounts.

The health of a jailed Chinese dissident is poor and he is not being allowed to communicate freely with his family