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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The South African government is working to reform Alexandra Township, one of the poorest, most...
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Lesson Plans
A Right to Water for Everyone?
This is a multi-week unit on water rights and access. Students examine the causes of water shortages across the globe and explore solutions to ensure that all people have access to clean, safe water.
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Unreliable access to electricity and ever-increasing prices for gas keep almost half of the...
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Pulitzer Center Update
UN Acknowledges Role in Haitian Cholera Outbreak
For the first time in six years, the UN has acknowledged responsibility for a cholera outbreak in...
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Students analyze how an author structures articles in different ways to report on malnutrition. The articles come from the project “1,000 Days: To save women, children and the world” by Roger Thurow.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Dominic Bracco
Between 2008 and 2010 Ciudad Juarez was ranked the most violent city in the world, based on its...
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Project
Venezuela on the Brink
With food shortages, collapsing health care, spiraling violence, political chaos and an economy in...
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Lesson Plans
Resources for University of Chicago Teachers
This plan includes lesson plans connected to the work of journalists that presented at the UChicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2016.
