Carl B. Visser writes that the working poor need help to beat poverty: People work hard to get out of poverty. To stay out, some families need the kinds of strategies and supports that will make a long-term impact on their ability to get to the next level and continuously closer to true self-sufficiency. Individuals […]
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Economic Growth Alone Won’t End Poverty
In a recent article, Yuba Nath Lamsal describes Nepal’s commitment to meet the UN’s MDGs. In it, she makes a very valuable point about global poverty which I now quote: “Faster economic growth is a key to reducing poverty. However, economic growth alone does not reduce or alleviate poverty which has been the case in […]
Extreme Poverty in USA Increased 26% under Bush
Andrew Gumbel writes about the widening poverty gap: The number of Americans living in severe poverty has expanded dramatically under the Bush administration, with nearly 16 million people now living on an individual income of less than $5,000 (£2,500) a year or a family income of less than $10,000, according to an analysis of 2005 […]
No poverty in Africa by 2015?
In a recent GNA feature, Hannah Asomaning says: Imagine a world where there is no poverty, there is basic education for everybody, respect for human rights, equal rights and opportunities for men and women and all the goodies one can wish for. There would be no crime, pain, hunger and anguish as seen in some […]
Killed by Poverty in a World of Plenty
Elizabeth Schulte writes about people being killed in a world of plenty: EVERY MINUTE of every day, 13 children die around the world of hunger and malnutrition. That’s the finding of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). Its latest report shows that 18,000 children die each day–or 750 each hour–of malnutrition and its related […]
Poverty’s True Face
Jesse Jackson recently wrote an article in which he says America has a poor excuse for poverty. He writes: We glimpsed misery in America during Katrina, as the poor were stranded in the storm. But those shocking pictures were misleading. America has a growing poverty problem, but it doesn’t look like New Orleans. Most poor […]