World Hunger and Poverty

In Louisville, Kentucky, many single mothers live in poverty. Marcus Green recently wrote about it and the need to spread affordable housing. I include an excerpt:
Experts say the importance of blending low-income residents into middle-income neighborhoods is that it offers better work and education opportunities for impoverished parents and children.
“In these high-poverty areas, there aren’t […]

Today I want to highlight the relevancy of literacy to poverty. Obviously, illiteracy leads to poverty, because illiterate people cannot get good jobs. In fact, 43% of people with the lowest literacy skills live in poverty.
Unfortunately, illiteracy still plagues society. For example, more than 20% of adults in the United States read at or below […]

Florence Graves and Hadar Sayfan recently wrote about “housing first,” a new approach to end homelessness. I include an excerpt:
In the past, society’s approach to homeless people with chronic health problems such as addiction has been governed by tough love: Stay in treatment, or you don’t get the opportunity for publicly supported housing. People who […]

When a man worth $30 million claims to oppose poverty, I find myself trying to balance the comedy with frustration. I want to laugh and scream at the same time.
John Edwards portrays himself as a champion of the poor, but the man spends his money on $400 haircuts. He lives in a 28,000 square-foot mansion. […]

Often when posting on this blog, I refer to the general needs of humans. I usually mention food, clothes, shelter, and healthcare. While those four general categories tend to cover the vast majority of what any given human needs, they do not cover everything. I often fail to mention the need to secure one’s retirement.
For […]

Kate Bolduan recently wrote an article about kindergartners helping fight world hunger. I include an excerpt:
Students at Raleigh’s Brier Creek Elementary scooped, weighed and bagged thousands of meals.
It was part of Operation Share House, an international effort to stop world hunger.
Once the meals are assembled and the boxes are packed, the meals will be shipped […]

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Newsblaze.com recently published an article that says child hunger costs Central America billions of dollars annually. I include an excerpt:
Child undernutrition cost the economies of Central America and the Dominican Republic almost $7 billion - or 6.4 per cent of the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) - in 2004, according to a new joint study […]

Carl Bialik recently wrote about the flaws in the way that the World Bank calculates poverty levels. I include an excerpt:
[T]o some economists, the World Bank’s definition of poverty is flawed, arbitrary and tends toward suppressing the numbers. Sanjay Reddy, a Columbia University economist and longtime critic of the bank’s counts, says, “If their dream […]