by Scott Hughes
The yew year comes whether we want it to or not. Without fail every year, all of us a year older celebrate the coming of a new year on New Years Day, and we wish ourselves a good year.
What’s so new about it, though?
As we close this year and tally up the millions […]
Unlike wealthy neighborhoods dotted with banks and health food stores, low-income neighborhoods are often filled with pawnshops, check cashing outlets, payday loan outfits, and stores that rent furniture and appliances. Dollar menus draw many low-income folks into fast-food joints, while convenience store shelves are stocked with cheap solutions like soda, chips and sugary snacks.
These businesses […]
People are being urged by Scotland’s new chief scientific adviser to embrace genetically modified (GM) food as an answer to poverty, hunger and toxic pollution.
Professor Anne Glover, herself a genetic engineer, is urging consumers to ignore labels like “Frankenstein foods” because they are misleading and damaging. The potential benefits of GM crops are “huge”, she […]
Food or rent? That is the daily choice faced by about 1.2 million of New York’s 8.2 million people.
Faced with that choice, mostly they pay rent and rely on emergency or charity food to survive, poverty activists say.
“It’s a struggle,” said 53-year-old Pierre Simmons, who has a part-time job, as he wrapped up a bagel […]
Putting an end to homelessness can be done.
Not shelter it, feed it or clothe it. End it.
An intractable social problem — created by the economy, drug addiction, mental illness, domestic violence, the justice system, lack of health care — can be solved, [Bill Block] says.
King County has an estimated 8,000 homeless people, and Block is […]
India’s newly declared war on junk food represents a sharp shift in direction for the government, which until recently had been inclined to believe that it made little sense to focus on the problems of overeating when people were still dying of malnutrition.
This week, however, [India’s health minister] Ramadoss declared that the Health Ministry needed […]
Progress on attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which seek to tackle poverty, hunger and other social ills by 2015, remains slow but countries are realizing the importance of the life-and-death targets and increasingly know what needs to be done to attain them, the UN adviser on the project said today, sounding a […]
The story of hunger in Vermont is told through vignettes: The father who forgoes food so his children have more to eat; the mother who cuts the milk with water to make it last longer; the child who is eligible for school food programs, but goes hungry rather than stand out as “poor” among the […]
The role of agriculture in addressing the [Africa’s] economic development is a foregone conclusion. Business as usual will not improve food productivity on the continent. Africa needs to change its ways in order to be able to feed its people and ensure its main source of economic development - agriculture - grows and develops. Prosperity […]
…the underlying question is: Why are we providing help for the needy only by treating the symptoms of poverty and hunger? What happens when the holidays pass and the poor are back where they were last year and the year before?
Being charitable and caring at any time of the year is wonderful. But if we […]