Jeff Swicord recently wrote an excellent article exploring poverty in the United States. I include an excerpt: They are a common sight in inner-city America: homeless people, living in the streets and going hungry. To most Americans, this is the face of poverty. Population experts and those who work at trying to help the poor […]
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Blood Diamond Stars Speak Out Against World Hunger
A recent article on Medical News Today reports that stars from the new movie ‘Blood Diamond’ speak out against world hunger. I include an excerpt: “What is so powerful that it can make you overcome your greatest fear, turn your brother into an enemy, and leave wounds that scar long after the fighting is over? […]
Canada & The War on Poverty
David Olive wrote an informative article about poverty in Canada. Here’s an excerpt: If the poor weren’t so conveniently invisible, maybe we’d come to our moral senses and devise a national strategy for eliminating poverty. But the one in six Canadians trapped in poverty are hidden in plain sight. They return from their minimum-wage work […]
Why Do The Good Die Young?
Rather than mourn a good person’s death, it’s better to celebrate the life that they had lived. On today, what would have been the seventy-eighth birthday of the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I cannot bring myself to celebration. I cannot bring myself to happiness. I am so happy that the great Martin Luther […]
Poverty Never Takes a Holiday
During the Holiday season people give more, but unfortunately the influx of charity and cooperation quickly ends after the holidays. This happened in Utah, where the good people of Utah helped thousands of local people in need during the holidays, but now the state’s food banks still face major food shortages, with many falling hundreds […]
UN Troops Raping Children in Sudan
The Daily Telegraph of London reported on Tuesday that U.N. peacekeepers and civilian staff were raping and abusing children as young as 12 in southern Sudan. The newspaper, in a story posted on its Web site, said it had gathered accounts from more than 20 young victims in the town of Juba of U.N. civilian […]