This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Organizations working to end human trafficking and modern slavery frequently throw around the word “freedom” in our theories of change, and we measure our impact based on how many individuals…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women’s rights are human rights. It seems this should be obvious (and indisputable), like gravity. Women and girls make up about half of the world’s population, and therefore half of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you want to gauge the state of economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, look to food insecurity. Food insecurity — lack of reliable access to healthy food — is a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cheaper Solar Power Means Low-Income Families Can Also Benefit Until recently, rooftop solar panels were a clean energy technology that only wealthy Americans could afford. But prices have dropped, thanks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The higher a person’s income, the more likely they were to protect themselves at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, a new study finds. When…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Period poverty is a prevalent issue in South Africa, where there remains a large number of people who don’t have access to menstrual education or sanitary products. Creating access to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the U.S., economic mobility is frequently linked with geography. Some places afford poor children the opportunity to do better economically than their parents did, and other places do not.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the world struggles against the current coronavirus crisis, could social and economic transformations follow as before? Below, Stanford University historian Walter Scheidel takes on this question, looking at how disease outbreaks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Not a single country has achieved economic equality between women and men. As of 2019, women only had equal rights in six countries. Everywhere else, legal discrimination, harmful beliefs, lack of access to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Businesses started and owned by entrepreneurs of color tend to be smaller and in less profitable industries, because of the effects of systemic inequality and racism. They have to start…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From entertainers to tech moguls to grassroots activists, here are some of the most inspiring people leading the way in the fight to end extreme poverty. Bill and Melinda Gates…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Berta Cáceres, a human rights defender, indigenous leader, and environmental activist, knew the danger of her struggle against hydroelectric dams on the Gualcarque River in Honduras. She faced near-constant harassment…