The below is a bulletin I recieved on MySpace from A Crazy Idea: A Crazy Idea and Youth Against Poverty have teamed up to form a coalition to end poverty in America, and they need your help! The numbers are staggering. Today 37 million Americans live in a state of poverty, hunger and hardship. That’s […]
Category Archives: Poverty News
$100 Laptop
This fall more than 500 children in Thailand will be part of a pilot program for “quality testing and debugging” of the $100 laptop. The One Laptop Per Child program, which is supplying the computers, is the brainchild of tech guru Nicholas Negroponte, who has spent the last several years developing and refining the technology. […]
Hunger Reading List
For those with an interest in hunger, poverty, and the social science thereof, I’ve compiled a list of books and reading materials. You can easily buy any of these books from Amazon instantly, so I recommend you get one, two, or a few. Here’s the list: The World’s Banker by Sebastian Mallaby World Hunger: 12 […]
Hunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts
Although I am not personally a religious man and prefer to look at hunger as a practical secular problem, religious people and institutions have worked diligently in the cause to end hunger. A powerful TV documentary presented by the National Council of Churches USA (NCC), “Hunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts,” takes an unflinching […]
Afghanistan Starvation
by Lance Winslow There appears to be many people in Afghanistan that were starving and it is said that over 3.5 million Afghans face a severe and critical food shortage. Now some might say this is because they are busy planting poppies instead of planting crops and indeed that is true. However, the fact that […]
Illegal to Feed the Homeless?
Anti-poverty activists and civil rights advocates filed a lawsuit against the city of Las Vegas this week challenging an ordinance that makes it illegal to feed homeless people in public. The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada filed the suit Wednesday on behalf of activists with Food Not Bombs, a grassroots anti-poverty group that provides […]