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Brown Calls Reading a Ladder out of Poverty

Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the UK, referred to reading as a ladder out of poverty. He also said, “It’s not just the joy of reading, father-to-son or in the classroom. It’s also the benefits of reading. It’s probably one of the best anti-poverty, anti-deprivation, anti-crime, anti-vandalism policies you can think of.” I do […]

Half of Disabled People in UK Live in Poverty

A UK news report has revealed that about half of disabled people in the country live in poverty. I find that statistic sad but not surprising. Disabled people have more trouble finding work. Even when they do find a job, they will have trouble finding one that pays enough. Additionally, disabled people have a large […]

18,000 Children Die Every Day From World Hunger

Happy New Year! Check out this YouTube video about world hunger that I made yesterday: Please post your comments on the video in this thread in the World Hunger and Poverty Forums.

Poverty and Lifestyle Choices

I just read a great opinion article by Melvina Young about the relationship between poverty and lifestyle choices. In the article, she explains that we cannot blame poverty solely on lifestyle choices. Many affluent people try to blame poverty on poor people by claiming that poor people’s bad decisions cause their poverty. However, in reality, […]

Trading Away Poverty

In a New York Times letter-to-the-editor entitled Trading Away Poverty, Ignacio Sosa writes that free markets and trade can do more to fight poverty than donations to large organizations such as the World Bank. I agree completely. Of course, we can both trade with and donate to poor communities. The two methods do not exclude […]

Some Poverty News From Around The World

I have decided to post some poverty-related news stories from around the world. A group of economists have criticized the government of Indonesia for failing to reduce the number of people living in poverty in the country despite general economic improvement for the country as a whole. 105.3 million people in Indonesia live in poverty […]