Economist Muhammad Yunus accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday for his breakthrough program to lift the poor through tiny loans, saying he hoped the award would inspire “bold initiatives” to eradicate a problem at the root of terrorism. Yunus, a 66-year-old Bangladeshi, shared the award with his Grameen Bank, which for more than two […]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Human Rights Day and World Poverty
10 December 2006 marks the 58th birthday of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. During the last 60 years many achievements have been made in the name of human rights, but considerable challenges still remains to be fulfilled in making […]
S.C. Hunger Rate Leads U.S.
About 6.3 percent of households in South Carolina – roughly 100,000 families – had “very low food security,” according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture study issued last month. That means normal eating patterns were disrupted and some had less to eat. The percentage is the highest in the nation and well above the U.S. […]
U.S. Poverty Moves To Suburbs
The suburban poor outnumbered inner-city counterparts for the first time last year, with more than 12 million suburban residents living in poverty, according to a study of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas released today. “Economies are regional now,” said Alan Berube, who co-wrote the report for the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. “Where […]
Imagine
Back in 1971, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono let the world imagine a better world, with no need for greed or hunger. Watch the video of their song, Imagine: Recently, A Perfect Circle has made a downbeat remix: Unfortunately, I think the downbeat version fits our contemporary world more than Lennon’s original. It’s […]
Crops & Global Warming
An unprecedented effort to protect the world’s food supplies from the ravages of climate change will be launched today by an international consortium of scientists. The move marks a growing recognition that serious changes in weather patterns are inevitable over the coming decades, and that society must begin to adapt. Some £200-million a year will […]