World Hunger and Poverty

Lowering the cost of health care would make it much easier for people to afford the cost of living, considering that the cost of health care costs make up a big portion of the cost of living. Lower health care costs would make it easier for poor people to escape and avoid poverty and easier for anti-poverty programs to help people escape and avoid poverty.

Earlier today, I published an article with the top ideas I support for reducing health care costs. Here they are:

• Tax Unhealthy Behaviors and Promote Healthy Habits
• Lower Insurance Company Profits
• Base Insurance Premiums on Habits
• Health Care Pooling
• Lower Health Care Fraud

Please read the whole article because it greatly elaborates on those ideas and provides links to the forum threads in which you can discuss the ideas.

I was recently contacted by a person named Abby from the World Food Programme, which is the food aid branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest humanitarian organization.

Abby informed me that this year the number of chronically hungry people will reach 1 billion and at the same time the number of internet users will also reach 1 billion. The first fact of course saddens me. But the second fact brings up hope of a way to organize folks, raise awareness and take action to fight world hunger and poverty. To that end, WFP has created a web-page about using the power of the internet and online social networking in fighting world hunger: http://wfp.org/1billion

She also shared with me this clever video about their project:

You can post your comments on that video in this thread at our forums. You can also use our forums to post other videos about world hunger and poverty.