Occupy Wall Street protests picked up with spring’s warm weather to protest the extreme wealth of just one percent of the people in the United States.

Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said that New York City’s public school custodians, who clean and repair schools, should be fired so that poor kids can take their jobs.

The United States is ranked the wealthiest nation in the world, yet almost half of all Americans are considered to be in poverty or low-income.

The problem with jobs? Too few people have them. The official unemployment rate is 9%: almost one out of every ten working people can’t find a job.

Find out how you can take action through the Girl Up campaign to change the lives of girls around the world!

African Americans and Hispanics have been hurt more by the recession then the overall population.

As rains roll in, the people of Haiti are still struggling to find shelter, water and food. Read about Haiti’s kids and about how other countries have helped make Haiti so poor.

When an earthquake struck Chile on February 27, it was 500 times more powerful than the one that struck Haiti, but a lot fewer people died.

A new study says that the number of children living in poverty increased by 21 percent between 2000 and 2008.

A recent survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that more people in the United States have trouble buying food.