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A program in southwest Uganda aims to address extreme poverty by giving people cash and coaching to help them build a sustainable income. But even the most established programs need to keep evolving.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Meghan Bodette, the director of research at the Kurdish Peace Institute, about the protests in the Kurdish region in Iran following the death of a young woman last week.

From streaming TV to razor blades by mail, Americans are buying more goods and services through pay-by-the-month plans. New research shows they often keep paying long after they want to.

Author Bonnie Tsui reminds us that humankind once sprang from — and still seeks — water. "Even if we can't get in the water right now," she says, "the ocean will be waiting for us."

Advocates for low-income Ohioans continue what they are calling the “Poor People’s Protest.” And this latest one at the Statehouse culminated with some...

President-elect Joe Biden focused his plan for rescuing the pandemic-battered U.S. economy on getting the coronavirus under control.

The National Football League has a diversity problem, which it acknowledged this week. Team owners announced new hiring rules to increase numbers of women and people of color in their organizations.

Federal authorities have uncovered massive fraud in programs designed to feed poor children. The defendants allegedly stole more than $250 million intended to feed needy kids in Minnesota.

An estimated 1.3 million people toured BLINK in 2019, and organizers expect at least that many this year.

A police raid in a Rio favela has ended in multiple deaths, in one of the deadliest operations in years.