World Hunger and Poverty

Today’s poverty-related book of the day is The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and The Next Episode of Capitalism by James Maxmin and Shoshana Zuboff. Here is the overview:
“Business is broken and can’t be fixed because today’s ‘managerial’ capitalism has grown hopelessly out of touch with the people it should be serving. The […]

Today’s poverty-related book of the day is The Greater Good by Claire Gaudiani. Here is the overview:
“For over a century, the United States has stood as a beacon of prosperity and democracy, proof that big business and big dreams could flourish side by side. Yet few Americans realize the crucial role that generosity plays in […]

Today’s book of the day is How to Make a Difference by Catherine E. Poelman. Here is the overview:
“A selfless volunteer herself, author Catherine E. Poelman offers hundreds and hundreds of ideas for would-be volunteers. Her book is filled with ways to serve, along with Internet resources, national and community organizations to contact, and books […]

Today’s poverty-related book of the day is Do Unto Others by Samuel Oliner. Check out the overview:
“In Do Unto Others, Holocaust survivor and sociologist Samuel Oliner explores what gives an individual a sense of social responsibility, what leads to the development of care and compassion, and what it means to put the welfare of others […]

Today’s poverty-related book of the day is First World Hunger: Food Security and Welfare Politics by Graham Riches.
Here is the overview:
“Hunger and undernutrition are widespread in many advanced capitalist societies. Hunger is now publicly acceptable despite undermining common standards of human decency and abrogating the basic right of people to adequate food as guaranteed in […]

I have decided to start a book of the day series on this blog. Each day for the rest of the month, I intend to make a post about a poverty-related book that interests me. I have not read any of these books yet. (If I had, I would have already posted about them when […]

Today, I just started reading the book Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine. Not being specifically about poverty, Levine argues in the book that sex is not necessarily harmful to minors, and that trying to keep children ignorant about sex and puritanically abstinent often backfires.
So far, I have […]

I just read a good article by Wendi C. Thomas in which she says that 80 percent of poor Americans have jobs.
The article contains some personal anecdotes about a few poor people. And it aims to help dispel the myth that poor people are lazy and do not want better for themselves.
Wendi C. Thomas […]

I doubt you would know this: I made my first post on this blog on July 12, 2006. Since then, I have made a lot of posts with a lot of information. I have expressed a lot of my opinions and explained a lot of my ideas. I have used this blog to take the […]

I just finished reading a great book a few days ago: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre-Feminist, Anarchist, Genius. I love Voltairine de Cleyre’s writing!
She wrote about various topics, but poverty came up often. In her essay Why I Am An Anarchist, she wrote something with which I completely agree: “The problem is […]