No one knows if one-year old Yunus will ever see his mother again. Like six million other Indonesians, she traveled far from home to find employment. She was hired by a...

This post asks why the Arab world is so backwards, not Arabs. So for those looking for a racist post attacking Arabs, go somewhere else. While Arabs are, of course,...

Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others. On last...

California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the Golden State: a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather. It symbolises a lifestyle of...

In morgues across the country the corpses of dead poor are stacking up as the the government runs out of money to bury them. State and county budgets for interring...

As part of the Huffington Post’s efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we’re rounding up some of...

As world leaders converge in Pittsburgh for a major economic summit this week, one of the biggest questions they face is this: How do you begin to replace the millions...

Last week’s deadly rioting that resulted after the central government refused the king of Buganda, Uganda’s largest ethnic group from traveling to one of his...

The last depres­sion the U.S. went through was in 1930’s, and it was part of huge global downturn. From a Mar­ket update newslet­ter from Sprott Asset Management,...

It’s late morning and Minara Khatoon’s five young children haven’t eaten yet. They sit huddled on the dirt floor of their mud thatch hut, waiting as...

When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on...

This brief post is meant to catch the attention of philanthropic readers over one of hundreds of thousands of cases in poverty and disease that continue to paralyze the...

A key gauge of Ireland’s economic health isn’t found in the island nation’s business districts or trading floors, but on the football fields of the...

The global effects of recession have resulted to numerous setbacks worldwide. Conflicts among nations, particularly the war against terrorism, worsen the situation....

Unemployment is an underlying malaise eating through the flesh and bone of the country. Every year the budget is labeled as poor-friendly, but it’s no more than a...

Will threatening to blow up the factory where you work get you a better severance package? What about staging a “bossnapping,” and attracting TV...

Poverty is the most dreaded issue in the daily lives of millions of Afghan people, especially those who live outside the capital city of Kabul. Even within the capital,...

After raising to a 26-year high of 9.5% in June, Friday’s unemployment number show a unexpected decline. The Labor Department reports that U.S. employment fell to...

Floyd Norris, in the “Off The Charts” columns in the Economy section of the New York Times declares “Leading Indicators Are Signaling the...

The Child Poverty Action Group is alarmed at a new report published by the Ministry of Social Development that shows that in 2008 one in six New Zealand children lived...