About 6.3 percent of households in South Carolina – roughly 100,000 families – had “very low food security,” according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture study issued last month. That means normal eating patterns were disrupted and some had less to eat. The percentage is the highest in the nation and well above the U.S. […]
Category Archives: Poverty News
U.S. Poverty Moves To Suburbs
The suburban poor outnumbered inner-city counterparts for the first time last year, with more than 12 million suburban residents living in poverty, according to a study of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas released today. “Economies are regional now,” said Alan Berube, who co-wrote the report for the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. “Where […]
Crops & Global Warming
An unprecedented effort to protect the world’s food supplies from the ravages of climate change will be launched today by an international consortium of scientists. The move marks a growing recognition that serious changes in weather patterns are inevitable over the coming decades, and that society must begin to adapt. Some Ł200-million a year will […]
Charity: Not Eating For A Cause
Sounds peculiar at first. You attend a charity banquet with a friend. Maybe you paid to get in. Maybe you didn’t. Your friend gets a full meal at a linen-clothed table while you sit on the floor and share a bowl of rice with strangers. Not fair? That’s the point. It’s called a hunger banquet. […]
Annan Says Youth Is Key To Poverty Fight
With less than two months before he steps down as secretary-general after a 10-year tenure, Kofi Annan is disappointed that the international community is lagging behind in its much-touted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including a 50 percent reduction in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. At this rate, he warns, many of the goals will […]
Manufacturing World Hunger
A recent article on ProgressiveU.org points out a main factor in world hunger, the destruction of food: If all food produced worldwide every year was counted, there would be enough to feed double the world’s current population. So why is it that 36 million people die of malnutrition every year? World hunger is a vast […]