Daniel Costello and Abigail Goldman wrote an article about calls for healthcare reform: An unusual new coalition of big employers, labor unions and politicians united Wednesday to push for “quality, affordable” healthcare for all Americans by 2012. The proposal adds to growing pressure on Congress, President Bush and statehouses across America where governors including California’s […]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Taxes Fund War Instead of Social Services
Catholic Online reports on criticism of the contrast between President Bushes cuts to social spending and his increases in military spending: The proposed $2.9 billion U.S. government budget proposed by the Bush Administration is a moral document that misses the mark in reducing poverty, with draconic cuts that will hurt America’s poor families, said the […]
PBS Article about the Causes of Homelessness
PBS recently published an article with facts about homelessness in the United States. I include an excerpt about the causes of homelessness. Homelessness may be caused by a variety of factors, but the coincidence of increased levels of poverty and decreased numbers of affordable housing often to blame. Other notable causes may include: Lack of […]
Help Ends Early for Poor South African Children
Katharine Hall And Jo Monson posted an article about South African Poverty. They say that help for poor children ends too early. In South Africa the majority of children are born into poor households. Poverty is associated with unemployment and exacerbated by low levels of education, and so the stage is set for yet another […]
Poverty Shifts to the U.S. Suburbs
Peg Tyre and Matthew Philips report on the growing problem of suburban poverty: Once prized as a leafy haven from the social ills of urban life, the suburbs are now grappling with a new outbreak of an old problem: poverty. Currently, 38 million Americans live below the poverty line, which the federal government defines as […]
Celebrity Chefs Raise Awareness of Starvation
It seems a dozen renowned celebrity chefs accepted a challenge to make cuisine out of CSB, a cheap bland substance usually given to the world’s poorest people by humanitarians. CSB stands for corn soya blend, the same vitamin-enriched food-ration substance that humanitarian aid workers truck through mine fields in Afghanistan and air drop from C-130s […]