'Terrible time to be poor': 700 Americans will be affected by food stamp cuts

Alice Holtin likes to play a game in which she imagines a life different from the one she currently lives. Yahoo!News writes about this. “What would it be like,” she wonders, “to never worry about money?” She…

Study: Americans' longevity depends on their income

According to a new study by the US Government Accountability Office, wealthier Americans are more likely to live to their 70s and 80s than the middle class and the poor. A report from the independent research arm of Congress found that more than three-quarters of the richest Americans, who in 1991 ...

Los Angeles Leads the Number of Homeless

On Thursday, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development released information that Los Angeles and the surrounding area are leading in the number of homeless people in the country. And almost all of them sleep outside. Since 2013, the number of homeless people in the city has grown by 55%, ...

In Russia, the number of poor has increased on 600 thousand people

The number of Russians living below the poverty line in 2014 increased by 600 thousand people and amounted to 16,1 million people, according to Rosstat. Thus, 11,2% of the population fell below the poverty line in Russia last year. In 2013 this indicator was ...

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