Days after Haley Stewart gave birth to her fourth child, a healthy baby girl named Julianna, a check for $1,500 was deposited into her bank account. After that, Stewart received $500 every month for ...

The concept is simple and seductive: Give people cash, lift them out of poverty. It's a strategy increasingly being used in both lower- and higher-income countries to help poor people. In short, there ...

President Obama has signaled that he plans to use income inequality as a political wedge issue in the 2014 midterm election. The idea is to shine a spotlight on the large disparity between the ...