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, […]
Category Archives: Poverty News
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 […]
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 […]
A Local Hunger Workshop Called Hunger 101
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 […]
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 […]