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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Lesson Plans
U.S.-Cuba Relations
This lesson uses reporting by Tracey Eaton and Rachel Southmayd to support student understanding around the state of relations between the US and Cuba.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Four Pulitzer Center Grantees Nominated for News and Documentary Emmy Awards
Honored multimedia projects range from an investigation into child labor in gold mining to an...
July 24, 2015 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: The Geography of Poverty
Photographer Matt Black is touring America's poorest cities. His work on the American southwest...
July 20, 2015 -
Pulitzer Center Update
How One Photographer Is Mapping America's Poverty
Time's Lightbox highlights Matt Black's journey through impoverished America. Every town he visits...
July 16, 2015
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-10-15/image-12-1000.jpg.webp?h=1e66e246&itok=8iEQdF3_ "“I’ve been through hell and damnation." A resident of the Press Park neighborhood in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans who has been diagnosed with stage four cancer. Referred to as "black Love Canal,” the housing development was built on a reclaimed landfill in the late 1970s. High levels of dioxins, lead, arsenic, and other chemicals in the soil led to the neighborhood being declared a Superfund site, although some residents remain. “I just ask God for strength.” Image by Matt Black. USA, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/07-14-15/foodprogram_wide-18d3f1aa1992d22fa524ccee25fb7610a1f6bb39-s700-c85.jpg.webp?h=abce51c1&itok=ZnNf3r64 "In some Indian states, efforts to serve eggs to malnourished children are a political minefield. Image by Lisa LaBracio for the animation "Power Lunch: India's Mid-Day Meal Program."")
