From the Barbara Ehrenreich article on Alternet.org http://alternet.org/story/39273/ A new study from the Brookings Institute documents the “ghetto tax,” or higher cost of living in low-income urban neighborhoods. It comes at you from every direction, from food prices to auto insurance. A few examples from this study, by Matt Fellowes, that covered 12 American cities: […]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Donate a Car to Charity
by Seth Scolack, Savvy Seth’s Donate a Car to Charity You may ask yourself, ‘if I donate a car to charity, are there any benefits in it for me?’ Like they say, “good deeds that you do always come back to you”. Without a doubt, donating your old car to charity is a generous gesture […]
The Myth Of Meritocracy
by Scott Hughes In respect to hunger & poverty in America, the U.S. people believe in a myth. The real myth is NOT that hunger and poverty don’t exist within America. Albeit, the prevalence of poverty hunger in America is largely downplayed and ignored by the collective American opinion. Regardless, no one can deny the […]
Hunger in the U.S.
The latest U.S. federal data indicate that: In 2004, 13.5 million households (or 11.9% of all U.S. households) were food insecure. Over 38 million people (13.2% of all Americans) lived in these households. During the 12 months preceding the 2004 survey, 4.4 million households experienced hunger. Over 10.7 million adults and children lived in these […]
SADC urges assistance to feed 10m Africans
by ANDnetwork.com SADC has called on donor governments worldwide to respond quickly and generously with food aid donations in kind or cash to avoid widespread hunger from developing into a humanitarian disaster. More than 10 million people will need humanitarian assistance in six countries across Southern Africa over the coming year following yet another year […]
Malnutrition Kills 10 Children Every Minute
Ten children die every minute as a result of malnutrition, more than a quarter of children in developing countries are underweight and suffer disease because of their poor diet, and in some areas almost half of all under-fives are malnourished, a new United Nations report says. Unicef warns that the slow progress on reducing nutritional […]