Peg Tyre and Matthew Philips report on the growing problem of suburban poverty: Once prized as a leafy haven from the social ills of urban life, the suburbs are now grappling with a new outbreak of an old problem: poverty. Currently, 38 million Americans live below the poverty line, which the federal government defines as […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Celebrity Chefs Raise Awareness of Starvation
It seems a dozen renowned celebrity chefs accepted a challenge to make cuisine out of CSB, a cheap bland substance usually given to the world’s poorest people by humanitarians. CSB stands for corn soya blend, the same vitamin-enriched food-ration substance that humanitarian aid workers truck through mine fields in Afghanistan and air drop from C-130s […]
Overpopulation & Poverty
The Independent recently released an article that says birth rates must be curbed to win war on global poverty: The earth’s population will approach an unsustainable total of 10.5 billion unless contraception is put back at the top of the agenda for international efforts to alleviate global poverty. A report by MPs released today challenges […]
International Hunger Workshop in India
Rafiqul Islam Azad reports on an international workshop about hunger: Speakers at an international workshop in Chennai, India [last Monday] stressed the need for formulating an strategy at aggregate level to ensure food security across the globe. The four-day workshop on “Food Insecurity: A Great Threat to Human Security”, organised jointly by International Student Young […]
Homelessness Mounting Among Kids
Catherine Komp recently wrote an article about homeless kids. She says: Described as America’s “dirty little secret” by social-service providers, an estimated one million young people experience homelessness each year. Many are unaccompanied teenagers, sleeping in parks, abandoned buildings or “couch surfing” at friends’ houses. Others are younger children, often in the care of a […]
Hunger Threatens National Security
Julianne Malveaux recently wrote an elegent article connecting national security with hunger. I include an excerpt: The war in Iraq, President Bush has said, is “of enormous importance to American security.” There’s another kind of security our president might want to focus on – food security at home. To be sure, he mentioned hunger and […]