I like the way E.J. Dionne portrays American Idol’s two-night special “Idol Gives Back” which starts tonight. I include an excerpt: Do you find it obnoxious when super-rich people in the music industry come forward to preen about their exquisitely sensitive social consciences? Is there something worse than a multimillion-dollar televised entertainment operation patting itself […]
Category Archives: Poverty News
UN Says 1 Billion People Live in Dire Poverty
The Associated Press reports that they UN says nearly 1 billion people live in dire poverty: Close to one billion people, or one-sixth of humanity, live in urban areas that are dangerous and “out of control,” a senior UN official said Monday. “About one person out of six in the world lives in very dire […]
Italian Schools Support Fair Trade
Today, David Cronin reported that Roman school-children can help alleviate poverty by eating chocolate among other foods: When schoolchildren in Rome tuck into a banana or a chocolate bar, they are making a real difference to families in poor countries. Italy is leading the way in a European drive to convince public authorities that they […]
Serving & Learning about Poverty
Gladys Terichow recently reported about a program in Ontario, Canada. The program combines helping unfortunate people with educating the fortunate.. I include an excerpt: TOOLS coordinator, Allan Reesor-McDowell, said the program is designed to offer challenging and faith-enriching experiences that change participants’ lives. It combines opportunities for service with learning, group discussions and personal reflections […]
Poverty, Violence, and Health
In a recent article from Watching The Watchers, Lee Russ concludes the following: Poverty and violence are not, it seems, merely some abstract philosophical states that matter only in the context of some partisan discussion of economic and social policy (nor are poverty and violence unrelated to each other). There is considerable evidence indicating that […]
Holocaust Survivors in Israel Live in Poverty
A recent report on israelinsider.com says that a third of Holocaust survivors in Israel live in poverty: Some 80,000 of the 260,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel are living under the poverty line, according to the Holocaust Survivors’ Welfare Fund, Ynetnews reported. That is almost a third of all Holocaust survivors in Israel. Many of them […]