Jennifer Harris recently wrote an article about awWater project helps that alleviate world’s poverty
More than 270 Christian organizations in the Micah Network are working together to ensure the United Nations keeps the Millennium Development Goals designed to cut global poverty in half by 2015. First Baptist Church of Columbia is one such group, striving to […]
The old ways don’t work. We need to work together and come up with new ways to effectively eliminate hunger and poverty. To that end, please come join the important discussions at the Hunger and Poverty Forums, where we discuss those topics plus other serious social issues such as education and healthcare. You can register, […]
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 Arnold Schwarzenegger […]
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 president […]
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 healthcare
According to […]
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 generation […]
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 an […]
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 into […]
The Independent recently released an article that says birth rates must be curbed to win war on global poverty:
The earth’s population will approach an unsustainable total of 10.5 billion unless contraception is put back at the top of the agenda for international efforts to alleviate global poverty. A report by MPs released today challenges world […]
Rafiqul Islam Azad reports on an international workshop about hunger:
Speakers at an international workshop in Chennai, India [last Monday] stressed the need for formulating an strategy at aggregate level to ensure food security across the globe.
The four-day workshop on “Food Insecurity: A Great Threat to Human Security”, organised jointly by International Student Young Pugwash (ISYP) […]