Working Poor Need Help to Beat Poverty

Carl B. Visser writes that the working poor need help to beat poverty: People work hard to get out of poverty. To stay out, some families need the kinds of strategies and supports that will make a long-term impact on their ability to get to the next level and continuously closer to true self-sufficiency. Individuals […]

Economic Growth Alone Won’t End Poverty

In a recent article, Yuba Nath Lamsal describes Nepal’s commitment to meet the UN’s MDGs. In it, she makes a very valuable point about global poverty which I now quote: “Faster economic growth is a key to reducing poverty. However, economic growth alone does not reduce or alleviate poverty which has been the case in […]

No poverty in Africa by 2015?

In a recent GNA feature, Hannah Asomaning says: Imagine a world where there is no poverty, there is basic education for everybody, respect for human rights, equal rights and opportunities for men and women and all the goodies one can wish for. There would be no crime, pain, hunger and anguish as seen in some […]

Poverty’s True Face

Jesse Jackson recently wrote an article in which he says America has a poor excuse for poverty. He writes: We glimpsed misery in America during Katrina, as the poor were stranded in the storm. But those shocking pictures were misleading. America has a growing poverty problem, but it doesn’t look like New Orleans. Most poor […]