Category Archives: Poverty News

11 Million People in Need in Horn of Africa

Sheila Nix, the U.S. Executive Director of ONE, emailed me some information about the crisis in the horn of Africa. Yesterday, the United Nations declared a famine in south Somalia. There are more than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa–more than the combined population of NYC and Huston–who desperately need food, clean water […]

$30 Billion a Year Would Eradicate World Hunger

The ENS did a great job reporting about the opening of the High-level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy. In my opinion, the most noteworthy part is when Dr. Jacques Diouf, the director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, pointed out the shameful contrast between what we waste […]

Global Food Crisis Now an Emergency

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, “The rapidly escalating crisis of food availability around the world has reached emergency proportions.” Rising prices have already raised the costs of the WFP’s current operations from $500 million to $755 million. I assume the inflation comes from the rising price of energy, which has risen from increased demand […]

Working Poor Most Generous

In a recent article, Arthur C. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness, pointed out an interesting fact about charity: Most studies have shown that the working poor tend to give away between four and five percent of their incomes, on average, while the rich give away between three and four percent. So-called “middle class” people […]

Evangelicals, Poverty and Gay Marriage

To most people, it seems that the mainstream evangelical movement has mostly focused only on opposing abortion and gay marriage. But I happily read an article about a group of evangelicals trying to prioritize a broader range of issues including poverty. They also intend to address other social problems such as healthcare, global warming, and […]