The Vatican has a new campaign encouraging divestment from mining, as Catholic Church leaders warned that a global rush for ...

The children of a respected Guatemalan community leader in Lake Worth Beach are missing school and work as court delays keep ...

There's a certain kind of traveler who doesn't just want a vacation. They want to feel something real. Not a sanitized resort ...

Poverty in New York has reached its highest level in more than a decade, according to the latest Poverty Tracker report from the Robin Hood Foundation and Columbia ...

Investing in women is not charity or a peripheral goal—it is one of the most effective development strategies available and ...

New research suggests that explanations based only on climate may not fully account for the major decline of the lowland ...

In Tapachula, Mexico, the main entry point for migrants and asylum seekers moving north through Central America, many of them are trapped in a web of hostile or dysfunctional immigration systems ...

Funding cuts, US political pressure and bureaucratic delays have left thousands of Haitians facing prolonged uncertainty in Tapachula ...

In the mid-1960s President Lyndon Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty” and created the modern American welfare state. A nationwide programme of food stamps began in 1964. Two big public ...

A total of 15 New York school districts had poverty rates of over 30% in 2024, according to new data. The Jamestown City School District in Western New York had the highest poverty rate in the state ...

The poverty rate in the Syracuse City School District fell more than 8 percentage points between 2023 and 2024, according to new data from the Census Bureau. A total of 28.97% of kids ages 5 to 17 in ...

Despite a lack of diplomatic relations, Beijing has been remarkably successful in expanding its economic and even political influence in Guatemala. During the first week of February 2026, I visited ...