In a gesture both symbolic and strategic, the General Assembly declared July 6 as World Rural Development Day, reaffirming its unwavering commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

One in five students across the U.S. goes to school in a rural setting. Rural school districts often have specific challenges, such as high transportation budgets, difficulty attracting good teachers ...

The no recourse to public funds policy is aimed at “temporary migrants”. But many children in households subject to the ...

Forty years after Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in his 1964 State of the Union address, nearly 35 million Americans still live below the line. More than 7 million families are in poverty.

Despite enduring one of the most severe economic contractions in its recent history due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bhutan achieved a significant and notably pro-poor reduction in poverty between 2017 ...