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: Poverty in America
Debating Poverty in America Simon Ostrovsky and Zach Fannin In a controversial report, U.N. Special...
July 10, 2018 -
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Extreme Poverty in America
More than 3 million people in the US live in extreme poverty, according to the UN. These people aren...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Cracking the Indian Patriarchy
Indian Girl Power Annalisa Merelli After working in the United States for 35 years, Virender “Sam”...
June 21, 2018 -
What happens when people are given property titles for houses they are living in? This project...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Placing Identity: A NewsArts Student Documentary
“In the modern world, our perspectives are defined by the places we inhabit,” student Emily Matthews...
May 17, 2018
![A screen from "The Story of American Poverty, as Told by One Alabama County." Image by Zach Fannin. United States, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/07-08-18/screen_shot_2018-07-09_at_3.57.20_pm.png.webp?h=355c7bb2&itok=SG2icVDs "A screen from "The Story of American Poverty, as Told by One Alabama County." Image by Zach Fannin. United States, 2018.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/screen_shot_2018-05-17_at_3.13.49_pm.png.webp?h=c5402909&itok=Q0dTq1Zr "A screen grab from "Placing Identity," a film developed by journalism students at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC reflects how the double-exposure process used by grantee Daniella Zalcman was used by "Placing Identity" facilitator Diana Greene to visualize the story of Charlene Hunt, a member of the Lumbee Native American Tribe, which is based in North Carolina. Screenshot from "Placing Identity." United States, 2018.")
