Dumpster diving, or "urban...  ...ur clothing or carpet, but in Fabon's poverty - stricken world, it means chicken pul...

Graphic: The New York Times / So...  ...us Bureau Can you be living on the edge of poverty if you earn more than $50,000 a year? Y...  ...le - yes, one in three Americans - live either in poverty or just above it. Jason DeParle,...  ...ensus Bureau this month released a new measure of *st...

Unless you live under a rock, yo...  ...resistant to increasing it. Poverty may be miserable. But being able to feel a bit be...

Photographer Horace Warner took hundreds of pi...  ..., Spitalfields, may have been as illustrations of poverty – but that is not the sum total of these beguil...

A song lyric says: "When all you've got is nothing, there's a lot to go around." Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley conducted experiments that show poor people tend to be more generous than rich pe...

Why do poor people often have many kids, even though having a lot of children surely makes their tough lives even harder? Don't blame them - blame evolutionary biology:There is no reason to view the poor as stupid or in...

Tin House in Gamalakhe Tintown in MargateIf you've...  ...structure is still used as a residency.”The poverty is palpable - the spartan house has bare walls an...

(YouTube link) Misery loves company, so this should make you feel as if you aren't alone. -via the Presurfer...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSQeMBzHR0o][YouTube - Link]Here's an all-star cast of comedians - John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman - lampooning the stereotypical "rich peopl...

It's always a good idea to give your kids vitamins...  ...ve much to do with why kids take vitamins ... but poverty does:Researchers derived the information from an...  ...ess access to health care, the study found.“ Poverty seems to be the overriding factor,” Dr. Sha...