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Nolberta Melara sews an apron at her house in the Salvadorean city of San Marcos on Oct. 13, 2006. To support her family financially, Melara makes aprones and then sells them in markets across the country. The 51-year-old woman saw her life...
Citizenship advocates in the audience listen as the Senate Judiciary Committee meets in a markup session to examine proposed changes to immigration reform legislation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2013. A bill to enact dramatic...
Activists say microsavings can also reach the poorest of the poor, far outside the reaches of the formal banking system, reported the Washington Post. Mercedes White Bill Gates once said, “If you are poor by birth, it is not your fault....
A Kenyan woman shows the message that appears on her phone when her GiveDirectly funds are available. (GiveDirectly) Mercedes White Paul Niehaus was pursuing a Ph.D. in developmental economics when he and his wife decided to give a portion...
Beggars wait to receive food distributed at a temple, in Allahabad, India, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007. (Rajesh Kumar Singh, ASSOCIATED PRESS) Mercedes White The world’s poorest people are becoming significantly better off, according to...
Muhammad Yunus in 2006 (Keizo Mori, UPI/Landov) Mercedes White Many Americans may not recognize Muhammad Yunus’ name but they have heard of his work. Yunus, who won the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday, is considered the father...
Courts in Ohio are illegally throwing poor people in jail for being unable to pay their debts, a new report by the Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News) Mercedes White Courts in Ohio are...
This August 7, 2002 photo shows Joe Fuhriman received assistance from the Utah Conservation Corps, a part of AmeriCorps, to install a truss on one end of his century-old barn in Nibley. Fuhriman is a fourth-generation farmer on one of the first...
Defendant Colton Louder and public defender Lisa Crawford sit in front of Judge Fred Howard at the 4th District Judicial Court, Tuesday, Nov.17, 2009. Louder was charged with the murder of his uncle, Jeffery Ackerman, in Pleasant Grove on Feb....
A widow Ampamma carries garbage on a cart, along with her children in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007. (Mahesh Kumar A, ASSOCIATED PRESS) Mercedes White Nearly 250 million women around the world are widows according to a research...
