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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.

 

February 19, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

Beijing's 'Rat Tribe': The Back Story

Ian Johnson

Living beneath Beijing's skyscrapers and residential blocks are an estimated 1 million migrant workers. Dubbed the "Rat Tribe," these low-wage workers make a home in windowless basement cubicles.

February 18, 2015 | CNN

Sim Chi Yin Interviewed on CNN

Leah Freeman, Silma Suba

Pulitzer Center grantee Sim Chi Yin is interviewed by CNN's Kristie Lu Stout on her photography for the project, "Beijing's Rat Tribe."

January 25, 2015 | Al Jazeera America

The Rat Tribe of Beijing

Ian Johnson, Images by Sim Chi Yin

Former bomb shelters and dank basements are now home to hundreds of thousands of rural migrants seeking to forge a new life in China's booming capital.

September 12, 2014 | Pulitzer Center

Uganda's (Preventable) Mess

Sam Loewenberg

Uganda suffers from a sanitation crisis, as many villagers nor the urban poor have access to toilets. An estimated 75% of the country's disease burden is linked to poor sanitation and hygiene.