Thanksgiving has just passed and the December holiday season has already begun. Charities and hunger relief organizations see a massive influx of donations and volunteering during these holidays, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Unfortunately, the rest of the year, these same organizations usually need much more volunteering and donations, especially the volunteering because extra money can be […]
Many anti-poverty and anti-hunger efforts consist of simple, short-term acts of charity, such as soup kitchens or free-food picnics. Food Not Bombs, for example, often schedules public rallies where the volunteers provide food that everyone including the homeless and poor can come and eat for free.
Feeding a person a meal will fend off their hunger […]
An article today from The Canadian Press reports that tougher welfare rules in Canada have proved effective at reducing poverty.
Generally, I oppose government-funded and government-managed welfare. Though, I do not want to abruptly abolish it, because many people and families depend on it. Of course, welfare helps cause this dependency. When we give people things […]
I have been doing community service at Foodshare on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have been working at a produce warehouse. The workers and I sort fruits and vegetables, mostly bagging them up while throwing out the bad ones.
Foodshare is a great organization, in my opinion. I knew before doing the community service that they are […]
A recent Washington Post editorial addressed Michael Bloomberg and the earned-income tax credit. I include an excerpt:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is not running for president. Yet that didn’t stop him from coming to Washington last week to promote an expansion of the earned-income tax credit as the next phase in the war on poverty. […]
Today, I read the most interesting article about poverty that I’ve read in a long time. In the recent article, Steven Pearlstein explains the ideas of Charles Karelis in regards to the seemingly counterintuitive behaviors common to poor people. I include an excerpt:
The reason the poor are poor is that they are more likely 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 […]
Emergency aid has saved millions of lives, but such help provided over longer periods might destabilise markets, create dependency on imports and delay reforms needed to lift domestic output, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a report.
“Reforms to the international food aid system are necessary but they should be undertaken giving due […]