MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government says poverty rose by 1.7 percent between 2008 and 2010 due to the global economic crisis and an increase in food prices. A study by the National Council for ...

MEXICO CITY, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Mexico's government announced on Wednesday that it will raise the minimum wage by 12% starting next year in a bid to help the poorest workers, as the new leftist ...

With about 46 percent of Mexico living in poverty according to the government, some argue the rest—the majority that Obama addressed in his speech— are middle class or rich.

The system that supplies about 25 percent of the water to Mexico City’s residents is running dry. Drought, climate change, ... but in terms of inequality and poverty. ...

By 2000, he was elected mayor of Mexico City and began promoting social programs like old-age pensions and financial support for single mothers. He first ran for president in 2006.

Opposition lawmakers criticized Mexico's independent statistics agency on Tuesday for changes in polling techniques in a survey that suggested income among the poorest Mexicans had jumped by a third.