I just read this interesting article about a Waco minister who created a poverty simulation called Plunge2poverty. He released a guidebook that other organizations can use to recreate the poverty simulation: Plunge2poverty: An Intensive Poverty Simulation Experience Basically, the simulation consists of giving 40 simulation dollars to participants from privileged or middle-class backgrounds. The participants […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Can We End Poverty?
In the forums, Kyrn has asked, how far can we go to end hunger and poverty? Personally, I think we can fully end hunger and poverty. The world has more than enough food to feed everyone. We have more abandoned houses than homeless people. We spend more money on the perfume industry than it would […]
Finding Education and Jobs That People Love
Often times on this blog I talk about the need to ensure that people obtain education and employment as a means to fight poverty and ensure financial stability. Of course, to make that effective we need to find a specific field of study and work for each person. I thought of this while reading through […]
The True Cost of Living
In the United States, the official numbers tell us that approximately 36.5 million people live in poverty. As shockingly high as those numbers appear, I think they still significantly underrate the problem. The government uses an absurdly low cost of living to measure poverty. For example, it puts the poverty line for a family of […]
Admissions Essays
The following is a paid review: Children born into poverty who escape the poverty trap often do it in part by getting into a good college. Additionally, any person greatly reduces their chances of ever falling into poverty by getting a good education and a diploma from a respected university. For those reasons and more, […]
YouTube World Hunger Video Contest
A new YouTube channel allows users to submit videos about world hunger for a contest by the United Nations World Food Programme. They call the contest Hunger Bytes. The WFP will choose 5 finalists, and the video that gets the most views will win a trip for two to a WFP hunger relief project. I […]