Poverty is a relentless struggle, not just in the U.S. but across the globe. It’s a complex issue that won’t be solved overnight and will likely take years of effort to improve the quality of life for ...

from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s laws wrong it learned to walk without having feet.” —Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete. The rose that grew from concrete—this metaphor, and ...

Throughout the world and throughout history Free markets have brought growth, prosperity and individual liberty. Socialism of the Soviet or national variety has brought impoverishment and tyranny.

Dreams were easy to envision, but figuring out how to make those hopes a reality was much more difficult. Laura Segundo had always known poverty; generations of her family had experienced it. Her own ...

OLYMPIA — Activists across Washington have a dream: to end discrimination and alleviate the root causes of systemic poverty across the state. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, nonprofit leaders, ...

It's May 1958, and 16-year-old Billy Hudson is bloody and battered lying in the dirt near his rural Arkansas home. He's clutching a shotgun, trying to decide whether to kill himself or the father who ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KLEO) — Poverty can make it a struggle to survive, and not everyone sees the crisis firsthand. This escape ...

Charles Crumpley is on vacation. This column, originally published Nov. 3, 2008, got a good deal of positive reaction. It has been edited slightly. At most awards dinners, you learn some interesting ...

It’s a metaphor I lean into heavily in my new memoir, The Deeper the Roots. When it was first suggested to me that I write it, I questioned the idea—I was only 26 at the time (now 31). But I knew why ...

At most awards dinners, you learn some interesting ideas and hear some success stories, and it all makes a nice, mild impression. But last week I attended an awards dinner downtown that made me slap ...