This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s the quintessential narrative of the American Dream: finish school, find a good job, make a respectable salary and you’re all set for financial success. But for many Americans, this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The difference in food affordability and the factors leading to food disparities across the globe may come as a shock to most. The World Food Programme’s (WFP) Counting the Beans…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Let’s start by getting real here when it comes to social change. Real is the harm that the global economy has caused through centuries of extractive practices. Real are the challenges that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month Cornwall Live revealed the 17 neighbourhoods in the county which are among the 10% most deprived in the UK. People in Cornwall scrape by on less than £14,300…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The demands on rural community colleges often go beyond academics when it comes to keeping students from dropping out of an institution. Food, transportation, housing, health care, child care and broadband…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day–and show how the projects it’s funded are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Microfinance is a $92 billion industry, with more than 100 million borrowers in more than 75 countries around the world. But as regular readers of NextBillion know, it is no…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How did we create a reading program for students with unique needs? Good question. We saw a need for a reading program for students in poverty, so through combination of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Access to education shouldn’t be determined by a child’s gender, yet 130 million girls globally are out of school and 15 million girls of primary school age will never even enter a classroom.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2009 Mike created two maps that he showed on the MappingforJustice blog. One shows Metra Commuter Rail Lines leading through the city and the other shows CTA lines. On…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to a new analysis released by the Human Needs Index (HNI), states with greater remoteness have higher levels of need than government measures suggest. The HNI, a joint project between The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Wednesday afternoons, Toneshia Forshee picks up her son, a four-year-old who suffers from optic nerve hypoplasia and wears thick Coke-bottle glasses, from the early childhood education center he attends…