Friends, neighbors and supporters of Bread for the City gathered on January 7 to dedicate a sparkling, newly-expanded center that…

A contributor considers whether the federal poverty levels are a reflection of reality.

I watch every day as people pass me by, without any acknowledgment of me.

The United States is the only major industrial nation that has no health care system for its citizens. The result is that 43 million Americans lack guaranteed access to essential health services.

The views and experiences of millions of people living in poverty in Africa will be heard by the leaders of the world’s richest countries as part of a new project by the campaign group ActionAid. 

The international sections of major U.S. newspapers are filled with stories of human rights abuses in Sudan, Rwanda and other faraway countries. Readers are frequently appalled by these accounts of malnutrition and hunger, unsafe living conditions and daily struggles to survive. But what many of those readers fail to realize is that human rights abuses are not just a third world phenomenon – in fact, they occur regularly in American cities, on our own neighborhoods and streets.

Jeffrey Sachs has a critical and ambitious project: to end global poverty by 2025

Who cares about the homeless who live on the streets, When they’re living in security, with a home full of heat.  

When you see a homeless person on the street,  Do you offer them something to eat? 

For nine days in March, 26 Georgetown University students went hungry to demand a living wage for university employees.

Bewildered by the Numbers  Your paper is very well written and interesting for a community newspaper. I am a public…

It’s no secret that area housing prices have soared over the past few years. Numerous studies of the region’s real estate market document an increase in housing costs of roughly 25% in the last year. And anyone who has been apartment hunting lately will back up those figures.

An interview of former Congressman and Reverand Walter E. Faunteroy on social issues affecting America.