poverty

Solutions to inequality are often portrayed as being at odds with environmental protection. It doesn’t have to be an…

The notion that we’re headed towards some kind of populational apocalypse—that there exists a line which, once…

Early one morning in April 2013, a stranger knocked on Virginia Hanlon’s door, identifying himself as a building…

As the White House was preparing to implement deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month,…

Earlier today, the World Health Organization declared that the Zika virus, along with its related neurological…

As Haiti reels from the immediate devastation of Hurricane Matthew, which plowed through the impoverished nation at…

Poverty is increasing in the U.S. A new series of detailed maps created by Justin Palmer plots its rise across the…

Just how big is the middle class in America? That depends on how you define it. But if you ask Americans how they…

If asked, most of us would say that our cities are healthier today than they were in 1970. But a new report from City…

Though over 1 billion people suffer from them, they're called "neglected diseases." That's because they attract…

How pervasive has the internet become? Roughly 90 percent of American households have three or more devices…

When the Commonwealth Games come to Glasgow this July, the city wants to put its best foot forward. The city thus…

You know you're broke when even a lunch at the lousy chain restaurant at the mall is out of your financial reach.…

This is the seventh in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63…

One of the big questions of futurism is what kind of world we want to live in tomorrow. But as attendees at a…

Men, take some advice from ForbesWoman and YourTango.com. If you want to find Mrs. Right, don't bother looking…

A school bus-sized satellite—the world's most capable—is for sale, as its corporate owner goes under. But rather…

Two weeks ago, I went down to the San Francisco auditions for American Inventors with Sarah Meyers of team…