Nearly nine percent of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $2.15 a day, according to the ...

In the United States, an unemployment rate nearing 9 percent is serious cause for concern. In Haiti, 19 percent would be a cause for jubilation. In the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, employment ...

Current job-creation efforts in Haiti after the earthquake are halting the reconstruction process and need to be re-examined, write Henriette Lunde and Amsale Temesgen. A man pulls a cart with ...

Rebuilding Haiti is a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it. For a few days this summer, I got to be one of many American do-gooders who dropped into a disaster zone and, armed with pickaxes and ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The announcement that Haiti’s military wanted recruits crackled through a small radio perched on a street stall in downtown Port-au-Prince where Maurenceley Clerge repairs ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post following a deadly gang attack on the largest public hospital in the capital, Port-au-Prince. In a statement ...

Clinton: Great pick to be UN point man. The United Nations has elevated Bill Clinton to be its top coordinator for Haiti. It’s an excellent move that should help the eventual transition back to UN ...

A Duluth, Minn., news anchor, who is also a registered nurse, quit her day job to help people in Haiti, MyFoxTwinCities.com reported. Less than two weeks before Julie Pearce makes the most important ...

Port-au-Prince, Haiti — The announcement that Haiti's military wanted recruits crackled through a small radio perched on a street stall in downtown Port-au-Prince where Maurenceley Clerge repairs and ...