Someone sent me a notification about a report about biotech crops by the ISAAA (The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications). According to the report, biotech crops have experienced remarkable growth over the last dozen years. The report also points out some socioeconomic benefits of biotech crops, namely the ability of poor or […]
Homelessness causes a lot of problems. For one, it greatly contributes to the poverty cycle because children who grow up homeless will not learn the skills or have the opportunities that they need to avoid poverty as adults. Of course, most people want to avoid homelessness, which means they may need to waste a lot […]
Squidoo provides helpful information about various topics with pages created by users. One interesting page on Squidoo is the one for Collins College: http://www.squidoo.com/Collins-College
Collins College offers education in creative fields such as game design and film production. The good thing about creative fields is that people who have a career in them usually like it […]
When talking about homeless people, many people do not realize that most homeless people are not bums. Most homeless people have jobs or are actively seeking employment. They are generally families made up of a single mother and her children.
However, there are bums. And the problem with them is very different than with other […]
An important part of helping people avoid or escape poverty is short-term education. People may not have enough money to go to school for a long time, and they need the education to make more money. It’s a catch 22.
http://www.sbcleveland.com/ is the website of a private college in Cleveland that offers short-term training programs. Sanford-Brown […]
I think those of us who work for poverty alleviation would benefit from trying harder to define poverty.
Common misconceptions about poverty hinder the social movement to eradicate poverty. I think we can often trace the misconceptions to a misunderstanding of what the word poverty means in the socioeconomic context.
I think finding a accurate and […]