A recent report on israelinsider.com says that a third of Holocaust survivors in Israel live in poverty: Some 80,000 of the 260,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel are living under the poverty line, according to the Holocaust Survivors’ Welfare Fund, Ynetnews reported. That is almost a third of all Holocaust survivors in Israel. Many of them […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Poverty Causes US Illegal Immigration Crisis
Karen Nakamura explains in a recent article how poverty and starvation cause the so-called immigration crisis the United States: CNN’s Larry King interviewed James Edward Olmos during last summer’s Latino workers’ demonstrations. King was discussing illegal immigration when Olmos suggested that maybe people were flooding across the border because there were few jobs at home, […]
New Program Addresses NY Childhood Hunger
The city’s food bank has created a program that will try to help alleviate hunger by bringing healthy habits back to the classroom and hopefully, back home with students as well. NY1’s Roger Clark filed the following report. It’s a twist on the Food Bank for New York’s BackPack Program, which provides kids at this […]
Needless Wars Leave Veterans Homeless
Ron Harris reports that veterans who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are increasingly showing up homeless at shelters and agencies across the nation. I include an excerpt: As the nearly 1.5 million military personnel who have been deployed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to return home, more are expected to […]
World Congress of Rural Women
The People’s Daily Online reports about about the 4th World Congress of Rural Women: Illiteracy, hunger, abuse and other challenges confronting rural women around the world will become focal issues at an international conference late next month in South Africa, a South African official said on Thursday. About 2,000 delegates from around the world will […]
Poor Need More Than Declarations
David Cronin writes about a delaration to drive back poverty: The 50th anniversary of the European Union has been marked by a declaration committing the 27-country bloc to “drive back poverty, hunger and disease” throughout the world. “While the 50th anniversary is surely a time for celebration, it is also a time to reflect on […]