Homelessness Mounting Among Kids

Catherine Komp recently wrote an article about homeless kids. She says: Described as America’s “dirty little secret” by social-service providers, an estimated one million young people experience homelessness each year. Many are unaccompanied teenagers, sleeping in parks, abandoned buildings or “couch surfing” at friends’ houses. Others are younger children, often in the care of a […]

Hunger Threatens National Security

Julianne Malveaux recently wrote an elegent article connecting national security with hunger. I include an excerpt: The war in Iraq, President Bush has said, is “of enormous importance to American security.” There’s another kind of security our president might want to focus on – food security at home. To be sure, he mentioned hunger and […]

Poverty in America Affects Millions

Jeff Swicord recently wrote an excellent article exploring poverty in the United States. I include an excerpt: They are a common sight in inner-city America: homeless people, living in the streets and going hungry. To most Americans, this is the face of poverty. Population experts and those who work at trying to help the poor […]

Canada & The War on Poverty

David Olive wrote an informative article about poverty in Canada. Here’s an excerpt: If the poor weren’t so conveniently invisible, maybe we’d come to our moral senses and devise a national strategy for eliminating poverty. But the one in six Canadians trapped in poverty are hidden in plain sight. They return from their minimum-wage work […]

Food Aid Reforms Needed to Combat Hunger

Emergency aid has saved millions of lives, but such help provided over longer periods might destabilise markets, create dependency on imports and delay reforms needed to lift domestic output, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a report. “Reforms to the international food aid system are necessary but they should be undertaken giving […]