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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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Melanie Saltzman
Journalist and producer Melanie Saltzman takes us behind-the-scenes of her Pulitzer Center supported...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalists: Rich Lord, Michael Santiago, and Stacy Innerst
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's year-long exploration of child poverty—its causes and effects, and the...
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This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for each of the essays and creative works that compose The 1619 Project.
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Pulitzer Center Update
AP Team Shares Insights on OPC Award-Winning 'Outsourcing Migrants' Project
Journalists consider common threads, individuals' stories uniting their Pulitzer Center-supported...
May 28, 2020 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Pulitzer Center Grantees Win 2020 Webby Award for 'Salvadoran Women and Suicide'
Univision News received a 2020 Webby Award for "Best Individual Editorial Feature" for their...
May 20, 2020
![In early May, Alabama became one of the first states to begin lifting lockdown restrictions. Though distancing guidelines were recommended few wore masks and even fewer were in groups of less than 10 or following the prescribed “6 foot rule." Having come from New York where people were stringently following distancing and social isolation rules it was as though there wasn't a global pandemic in Southern Alabama. Image by Maranie Staab. United States, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-09-20/staab_1.jpg.webp?h=82f92a78&itok=2nBYM_co "In early May, Alabama became one of the first states to begin lifting lockdown restrictions. Though distancing guidelines were recommended few wore masks and even fewer were in groups of less than 10 or following the prescribed “6 foot rule." Having come from New York where people were stringently following distancing and social isolation rules it was as though there wasn't a global pandemic in Southern Alabama. Image by Maranie Staab. United States, 2020.")
![Lori Hinnant (top left), Julie Watson (top right), Tim Sullivan (bottom right), and Farnaz Fassihi (bottom left) discuss the Pulitzer Center-sponsored "Outsourcing Migrants" project. Image by Ethan Ehrenhaft. United States, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-27-20/opc_zoom_talk.jpg.webp?h=263c0551&itok=BIFKiSlm "Lori Hinnant (top left), Julie Watson (top right), Tim Sullivan (bottom right), and Farnaz Fassihi (bottom left) discuss the Pulitzer Center-sponsored "Outsourcing Migrants" project. Image by Ethan Ehrenhaft. United States, 2020.")
