Dark Valley: Life in the Shadows
In the first installment of his journey through America's poorest towns, Matt Black documents poverty in the American southwest. Immigrants and citizens alike suffer from policies that keep them poor.
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.
In the first installment of his journey through America's poorest towns, Matt Black documents poverty in the American southwest. Immigrants and citizens alike suffer from policies that keep them poor.
In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, schoolchildren do not get meat or eggs in government-provided school lunches. Jainists are vegetarians, but many Indians (especially the poor) would prefer meat.
India's progressive school lunch program has helped curb hunger in classrooms. It has also provided stable jobs for cooks like Saroj, a domestic violence survivor.
After teaching underserved students, a writer and photographer return to document the struggling New York City educational system.
A silent killer: China's number one occupational disease kills three times as many workers as mining accidents each year.
The flood that swept through the Indian state of Uttarakhand two years ago killed thousands of people. Now researchers are saying that melting glaciers and shifting storm tracks played a major role.
After years of working in an illegal gold mine, He Quangui, of China's Shaanxi Province, battles silicosis—an irreversible and painful lung disease.
As India's economy rises and many enjoy a new prosperity, the country also faces soaring inequality. Surama Eesar is one of those left behind by the new economy.
Photographer Matt Black and MSNBC undertake an in-depth report on poverty in the US, profiling the lives of America's poor in over 70 cities.
The government closed brothels to clamp down on human trafficking. But that move put the country's prostitutes in grave danger.
Local religious and political leaders in Puerto Esperanza, Peru, advocate for the construction of a road connecting the town to more populated areas. Many environmentalists oppose them.
Debate persists throughout northern and southern India about how best to limit family size. School attendance, maternal health and infrastructure all have an impact on fertility rates.
OneWorld.net highlights the Pulitzer Center's ongoing "Water Wars: Ethiopia and Kenya" reporting project on February 28 in the Today's News section of its website. The project, conducted by the young journalists of the Common Language Project, addresses the increasing scarcity of water in East Africa and how the shortage is fueling conflict in the region.
See OneWorld's feature in its February 28 Today's News section.
On Thursday, February 21, 2008, Jason Motlagh visits with American University journalism students. Just back from India where he reported on the Naxalite insurgency in the Pulitzer Center-sponsored reporting project "India's Backdoor War," Jason will share his experiences with students.
This Saturday, December 1, is World AIDS Day, a moment each year for special focus on the epidemic. Two hours away from American shores people face this epidemic daily. The Dominican Republic and Haiti boast the highest rates in this hemisphere of the virus that leads to AIDS. And it is a story that has been overlooked in the American mainstream media.
OneWorld highlighted the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting India project on September 27, 2007 in the Today's Newssection of its website. The mention reads, "Freelance journalist Jason Motlagh unearths the India beyond Bollywood and the info-tech boom. Keep up with his blogs and photo reports on the country's rural poor, who are dealing with flooding and a four-decade-long guerrilla insurgency."