poverty report

Life inside the 'hijacked' Johannesburg building where scores burned alive

Johannesburg city authorities leased it to a charity providing shelter for women in 2016, but it had "ended up serving a different purpose," Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda told reporters.

By REUTERS
02/09/2023

'Poverty, by America': Explaining poverty in Israel and the US - review

Each society goes about “manufacturing” poverty in its own way and high levels of poverty – whether in rich or less prosperous societies – are by no means inevitable.

By ALLAN BOROWSKI
05/08/2023

Four Arab-Israeli conflict myths shattered by one terror incident - opinion

The confrontation between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian Arab terrorists in Jenin on May 29th might seem to have been a routine incident.

By STEPHEN M. FLATOW
04/06/2023

10 reasons why the Earth's future is better than you think

The 10 graphs featured in this article show that, for perhaps the first time in human history, our future is better than most of us think.

18/03/2023
A PASSERBY stops to console a poor woman in Jerusalem in 2015.

Poverty rates in Israel are among the highest - opinion

Poverty is not predetermined and gaps can be narrowed if we set our minds to it.

By TALI NIR
31/01/2023

Why is poverty in Israel getting worse? - opinion

If a meaningful plan to address food insecurity is not formulated and implemented, it is guaranteed that we will be having this exact same conversation after the release of the next report.

By GIDI KROCH
30/01/2023

More Israelis are poor as gap widens between haves, have-nots

Charitable organizations play a vital role in a country where the cost of living and the gap between rich and poor are large and growing, but experts say a real solution requires government action

By KEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE
19/01/2023

1 in 5 Israelis lived below the poverty line in 2021 - report

Israel’s poverty rate ranks second-worst in the developed world.

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