An estimated 702.1 million people around the world lack access to food, clothing and other basic necessities. Pulitzer Center reporting tagged with “Poverty” feature reporting on health, malnutrition, education inequality and the many other endemic effects of poverty. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on poverty.
Filmmaker Karim Chrobog looks at the staggering amount of food wasted in the U.S. – a problem with major human and environmental costs.
A series of small changes—a wall to capture rainwater, expanded vegetable gardens and more efficient wood stoves—are helping families eke out an existence in one of the world's poorest countries.
Facing a severe shortage of surgeons, Mozambique decided to train non-physicians to do life-saving operations.
Women in sub-Saharan Africa have a one in 38 chance of dying as a result of complications from pregnancy or childbirth. Low-tech interventions are flipping the script in Kenya.
India's Parsi community has been shrinking for decades. Now, to grow the population—or at least save it from extinction—India's government wants to increase the birthrate.
Matt Hongoltz-Hetling looks at the protective gear that maternal health care workers wear in Sierra Leone.
National Geographic's Janna Dotschkal interviews Pulitzer Center grantee Dominic Bracco II about his work in Mexico, Texas, and Honduras.
Trying to convey the humanity of the Freetown residents who use their heads to transport goods safely through the chaotic streets.
The Chinese dream goes underground.
The barriers separating the Roma residents of Keleti from the city that surrounds them are not physical. They are barriers of absence: absence of education, absence of gainful employment.
Last year, 43 students went missing from Iguala, Mexico. Award winning photojournalist Matt Black documents the lives of their families.
Narendra Modi wants India to embrace its traditional systems of medicine, like ayurveda and yoga. But can he convince rich Indians to treat their ailments with lead pills and squirming bugs?
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