This short video quickly displays facts about hunger and poverty. At only one minute and fifteen seconds long, this enlightening video is a must-watch:
Category Archives: Facts and Figures
A Crazy Idea
The below is a bulletin I recieved on MySpace from A Crazy Idea: A Crazy Idea and Youth Against Poverty have teamed up to form a coalition to end poverty in America, and they need your help! The numbers are staggering. Today 37 million Americans live in a state of poverty, hunger and hardship. That’s […]
Causes of Hunger related to Poverty
In a world of plenty, huge numbers of people go hungry. Hunger is more than just the result of food production and meeting demands. The causes of hunger are related to the causes of poverty. One of the major causes of hunger is poverty itself. There are other related causes (also often related to the […]
Hunger Reading List
For those with an interest in hunger, poverty, and the social science thereof, I’ve compiled a list of books and reading materials. You can easily buy any of these books from Amazon instantly, so I recommend you get one, two, or a few. Here’s the list: The World’s Banker by Sebastian Mallaby World Hunger: 12 […]
Wikipedia: The Politcs Of Hunger
As of 2006, hunger continues to be a worldwide problem. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “850 million people worldwide were undernourished in 1999 to 2005, the most recent years for which figures are available” and the number of hungry people has recently been increasing. An orange awareness ribbon is […]
The High Cost Of Poverty
From the Barbara Ehrenreich article on Alternet.org http://alternet.org/story/39273/ A new study from the Brookings Institute documents the “ghetto tax,” or higher cost of living in low-income urban neighborhoods. It comes at you from every direction, from food prices to auto insurance. A few examples from this study, by Matt Fellowes, that covered 12 American cities: […]