If economy collapses, this will affect negatively the status of religion in the people’s eyes, Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli stated on Thursday. It not possible to manage the country’s affairs with idealistic dreams, he noted. “If we want to manage the country (efficiently), we should see in what conditions we live,” the ayatollah said in [...]

One of six American live in poverty, a new report finds, leading to the implication that the US poverty level is even worse than first believed. The National Academy of Science (NAS) formula calculates the poverty rate to be at 15.8 percent, or nearly 1 in 6 Americans, according to new estimates released this week. [...]