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
The World's Most Toxic Town
Use reporting on Zambia’s lead mines by Damian Carrington and Larry C. Price to explore the causes, effects and responses to toxic lead poisoning.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Gender Lens: Refugees and Migration
During the concurring panels at the Pulitzer Center Gender Lens Conference on June 3, 2017...
June 12, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: The World’s Most Toxic Town
The World's Most Toxic Town Larry C. Price and Damian Carrington For almost a century, the town of...
May 31, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Brazilian Journalists Invited to Apply for 4-Day "Reporting Land Rights" Course
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Thomson Reuters Foundation announce a special...
May 23, 2017
![Nelson Adose Martines, 59, emerges from harvesting a cassava root by his family's shacks off of Suriname's Afobaka Road. Martines is part of the generations of Saamaka who still feel the effects of a 1964 government resettlement that moved thousands of residents from villages inundated by Alcoa's Brokopondo Reservoir. "We live off farming, farming is how we eat, how we live," said Martines. "But because a lot of villages relocated, we had to share these resources with more people." Image by Stephanie…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-23-17/4-saamaka01.jpg.webp?h=dfba89c9&itok=W86HMYdU "Nelson Adose Martines, 59, emerges from harvesting a cassava root by his family's shacks off of Suriname's Afobaka Road. Martines is part of the generations of Saamaka who still feel the effects of a 1964 government resettlement that moved thousands of residents from villages inundated by Alcoa's Brokopondo Reservoir. "We live off farming, farming is how we eat, how we live," said Martines. "But because a lot of villages relocated, we had to share these resources with more people." Image by Stephanie Strasburg. Suriname, 2017.")