Archive for June, 2008

Women’s Pay Key to Child Poverty

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Recent research in the UK has shown that women’s low pay has huge implications on child poverty.
I think we can apply those findings to most countries. Throughout the world, women both tend to have most of the child raising responsibilities and tend to receive lower pay. For example, many single mothers work hard at multiple […]

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$30 Billion a Year Would Eradicate World Hunger

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

The ENS did a great job reporting about the opening of the High-level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy.
In my opinion, the most noteworthy part is when Dr. Jacques Diouf, the director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, pointed out the shameful contrast between what we waste and […]

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