poverty

More than a billion of the world’s poor have to. On April 29th, people everywhere are taking the five-day challenge to Live Below the Line. Here are a few tips to get you started.

A recent survey by the Canadian Medical Association (via CBC News), part of the National Report Card on Health for 2012, points to a few disturbing trends when it comes to health and well-being in Canada.

We've been told that money actually can buy some happiness: especially if you make up to $75,000 a year (and can take care of all of your basic needs), and if you spend that money on helping others. But how do the poorest people in the world experience happiness? Here, I talk to Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a new non-fiction book about the men and women who live in a Mumbai slum called Annawadi.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo spends three years in an Indian slum to write this narrative non-fiction about the life of poverty and the human condition that exists there

Juggling the responsibilities of work, home, and raising young children—it’s no wonder why many women are stressed to the hilt. Add nagging money worries or depression to the modern woman’s daily cocktail and you’ve got a fairly potent anti-relaxant formula on your hands.