Experts say the public's poor opinion of the national economy, including high unemployment, is the main problem facing Democrats this year.

VOA: special.2010.10.30

Jacob Riis's concern for the poor kept him so busy writing and speaking around the country that he ruined his health.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Microfinance provides poor people with a way to build savings and work toward becoming part of a country's official financial system.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Poor Billy! A bullet came out of the sky one day and tore a great hole in Billy's chest.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Officials say this will make it easier to measure the effects of policies and develop new solutions to help the world's poor.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Clemente's work helping poor people, especially those in Puerto Rico, became a very important part of his life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Leaders of the world's wealthiest nations have promised twenty billion dollars to increase food security in poor countries.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

For example, organizers of the Street Scene festival in San Diego,California, cancelled this year's event because of poor ticket sales last year.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

They said it was unfair. "It's a rich man's war," they cried, "but a poor man's fight.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

But for many of the world's poor, finding a good way to keep food cool is difficult.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

One sign is that the Standard & Poor's list of five hundred stocks has risen more than twenty-five percent in the past five weeks.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

While he was best known for his legislative battles for America's poor and disabled people, Senator Kennedy was also a leader in foreign policy.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

It tells about a poor boy who trades identities with a member of England's ruling family.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

In nineteen sixty-eight, Martin Luther King was planning to lead a Poor People's March on Washington.

VOA: special.2011.01.17