Poverty
An estimated 702.1 million people around the world lack access to food, clothing and other basic necessities. Pulitzer Center reporting tagged with “Poverty” feature reporting on health, malnutrition, education inequality and the many other endemic effects of poverty. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on poverty.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Syria's Catastrophe
The civil war in Syria is now manufacturing refugees on an industrial scale. Overall, nearly one...
September 23, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Review of Alan Weisman's 'Countdown'
Alan Weisman, the author of bestseller "The World Without Us," says population is going in the wrong...
September 23, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Joanne Silberner Wins Victor Cohn Prize for Cancer Series
Joanne Silberner wins another award, the 2013 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science...
September 18, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: The Lingering Disaster
Last April, the world was shocked and outraged by the Rana Plaza disaster—a building collapse that...
September 13, 2013
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/09-23-13/countdown.jpg.webp?h=481387e6&itok=3djlILYf "The cover of the book, "Countdown" by Alan Weisman. Image by Little, Brown and Company.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/09-17-13/silberner2.jpg.webp?h=f4aeaa6d&itok=9g3KJWmJ ""The Infectious Connection: Part IV of V" was featured on PRI, PBS NewsHour and BBC News. This is the story's photo of Veronica Alebo, a young Burkitt's lymphoma patient, who has a large tumor in her abdomen and receives treatment at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala. Image by Jacqueline Koch. Uganda, 2012.")
