UN officials named the biggest challenges to meeting poverty reduction goals as the rising prices of food and energy as well as global warming. The demand for oil will continue to increase as countries all over the world continue to industrialize and develop. Of course, we continue to use up more and more of our […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
UN Meeting on Poverty Scheduled for September
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has announced that he plans to co-host a UN meeting on poverty with the president of the (UN) General Assembly. The meeting will take place on September 25th, during the general debate of the UN General Assembly which runs from September 23 to October 3. September seems like far off, but […]
Imagine No Lending
In a recent post at the Philosophy Forums, I speculated that a society could avoid problems such as the recent credit crisis by not coercively enforcing contracts. In other words, lending would not exist in a formal way in that borrowers would not be forced to pay back what they borrow. I believe it would […]
Unfair Taxes and Poverty
Forbes named Warren Buffett as the richest person in the world as of March 5, 2008. Personally, I admire Warren Buffet for a variety of reasons. Namely, he behaves in a down-to-earth way, and he has earned the title of philanthropist. Last year, he pointed out that he pays a smaller percentage in taxes than […]
Widespread Poverty in the U.S. Does Exist
I have noticed some people have a tendency to try to underestimate poverty in the United States. These people try to make United States poverty out as mostly an illusion. They seem to most often think that “liberals” try to play with the numbers to make it seem like many people live in poverty when […]
Charles Loring Brace’s Work in Child Poverty
I just read a very interesting article by Howard Husock about Charles Loring Brace’s work to help poor children in New York City. I had not heard much about Charles Loring Brace beforehand, but the article explains his life and the work he did in the 19th Century. Most notably, Brace helped alleviate child poverty […]