Any sane person would prefer to live in a world without poverty than a world with poverty. We prefer to live by each other’s happiness, not each other’s pain. Of course, this makes it odd that poverty continues. What can you do to fight poverty? Most importantly, talk about it! We cannot solve a problem […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Measuring Poverty in America
Douglas J. Besharov recently wrote about measuring poverty in America. I include an excerpt: Each year, the Census Bureau reports on the nation’s poverty rate, based on the number of people with incomes below the official poverty line, adjusted annually for inflation. In 2005, the poverty line, which varies by family size, was $15,577 for […]
Jolie & Aniston Fight Poverty Together
Despite any differences they may have had personally, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston and both join in their support of OmniPeace; an organization devoted to ending extreme poverty by 2025. In June, David Arquette and Courtney Cox hosted the launch of the OmniPeace shirt. OmniPeace recieves 50% of the profits from the shirt’s sales. Other […]
No Single-Payer Healthcare
Let’s not waste our time with an any more of a verbose introduction than this sentence. As of 2004, 41.6 million United States people below the age of 65 do not have health insurance. As of 2004, 9.2% of United States children do not have health insurance. As a result of those appalling statistics, many […]
3 Million Homeless People Every Year
Terry Cline, administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Washington, had the following to say about homelessness: “Each year some 2 to 3 million individuals experience a night of homelessness, and approximately 800,000 people are homeless in the United States on any given night.” “By raising awareness about effective homelessness prevention […]
Major Media Ignores Poverty
I think we all realize that the major media ignores serious social issues such as poverty. Major media prefers to report about trivial aspects of Paris Hilton’s life than to report about poverty. They rarely even mention simple statistics, such as the fact that 18,000 children die every day from hunger. I see two major […]