Poverty

FILE - In this photo illuminated by an off-camera flash, a woman walks past a homeless person's tent with a chair in downtown Los Angeles, Feb. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, left, speaks with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as they pose for a photo with nation leaders and representatives, at the start of the four-day Financing for Development meeting, in Seville, Spain, Monday, June 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Angel Garcia)

Drivers of motorcycle taxis, known locally as boda-bodas, ride with passengers on a street of Kampala, Uganda, on July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

Joe Ridenour sits for a portrait on the steps of the recreational vehicle he once called home in Castle Rock, Colo., on Friday, July 12, 2024. Ridenour said he would have been consumed by his drug abuse if not for the help and shelter provided by The Rock non-denominational evangelical church. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Karla Finocchio, 55, holds up a picture of her dog Scrappy in her room at Ozanam Manor temporary housing for people 50 and up, in Phoenix, Feb. 4, 2022. Finocchio is one face of America’s graying homeless population, a rapidly expanding group of destitute and desperate people 50 and older suddenly without a permanent home after a job loss, divorce, family death or health crisis during the pandemic. (AP Photo / Ross D. Franklin)

Virginia Mavhunga, a 13-year-old teenage mother, holds her child in her rural home in Murehwa, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, Nov. 12, 2021. Virginia, part of a steep increase in pregnancies among girls and teenagers in Zimbabwe and other southern African countries during the pandemic, dropped out of school after becoming pregnant in a community yet to adjust to the sight of a pregnant girl in school uniform. (AP Photo / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Qandi Gul, 10, holds her brother outside housing for those displaced by war and drought near Herat, Afghanistan, Dec. 16, 2021. Gul’s father sold her into marriage without telling his wife Aziz, taking a down payment so he could feed his family of five children. Without that money, he told Aziz, they would all starve. He had to sacrifice one to save the rest. But Aziz is fighting to save her daughter from being forced into the arranged marriage. (AP Photo / Mstyslav Chernov)