I live in Connecticut, so I especially noticed a recent article in The Daily Campus about a local hunger workshop called Hunger 101. I include an excerpt of the article: It is a common misconception that hunger is more of a global than a local issue, but roughly 100,000 people in Connecticut suffer from food […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
A Blot on Any Civilized Society
Vice President of India, Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat calls poverty a blot on any civilized society. I post an excerpt of a press release on pib.nic.in: Shri Shekhawat while releasing the book “Poverty and Hunger: Causes and Consequences” by Dr. Ratan Das, an eminent Gandhian and Sarvodaya leader said that success of any programme of […]
Jeffrey Sachs on Extreme Poverty
Jeffrey D. Sachs recently wrote an article about extreme poverty: Around one billion people live in extreme poverty, suffering from economic deprivation so severe that they must struggle daily for survival. Extreme poverty is sometimes defined as living on under $1 a day, but more accurately it is the lack of reliable access to basic […]
The Poverty Cycle & Child Labor
Irshad Ali writes about child labor: THE complex issue of child labour has emerged once again. The notion that children are being exploited and forced into labour while not receiving an education crucial to development, concerns many people. Children do extremely hazardous work in harmful conditions, putting their health, education, personal and social development, and […]
Homelessness in the US: Underfunded
Naomi Spencer writes about homelessness in the United States: While statistics do not capture the real social dimension of homelessness in the United States, new data confirm that the homeless face increasing brutality, criminalization and neglect. But like the growing poverty population, the suffering of the homeless population finds no meaningful reflection in the budget […]
Third of Iraqi Children Now Malnourished
Uruknet reports on Iraqi children’s malnourishment four years after US invasion: …malnutrition rates have risen in Iraq from 19 percent before the US-led invasion to a national average of 28 percent four years later. Caritas says that rising hunger has been caused by high levels of insecurity, collapsed healthcare and other infrastructure, increased polarisation between […]