Category Archives: Poverty News

I simply want to say that I hope all of you have had a great holiday season so far whether you celebrate Christmas or not. Also, I hope you have many more happy holidays in the future. We can relax for now, but after this holiday season I want to expand this blog’s purpose to […]

I just read an interesting blog post by Philip Brewer about the fatness of poor people. In the post, Brewer points out the seeming irony of poor people’s tendency for fatness and obesity. He cites some of the common explanations given for that phenomenon, but he ultimately blames it on hunger. He explains that poor […]

I just read a great article by Michael Chu about the relationship of profit and poverty. In the article, he specifies four criteria that any poverty-intervention-method must fulfill. Firstly, he mentions scale. This means that a method must work on a global scale. We obviously cannot use methods that can only work on small scales […]

In the forums, Kyrn has asked, how far can we go to end hunger and poverty? Personally, I think we can fully end hunger and poverty. The world has more than enough food to feed everyone. We have more abandoned houses than homeless people. We spend more money on the perfume industry than it would […]

In a year, the number of children in the UK living in poverty has risen by 200,000. The world has more than enough food to feed everyone in the world, and more than enough resources to provide clothing, shelter, education and healthcare to everyone. For that reason, any social or economic system that denies children […]

A few different organizations collaborated to research the effect of family poverty on children. The study took an in depth look at 70 low income families from both poor neighborhoods and more affluent ones. The study took place in England, but I believe it can tell us the general effects of poverty on children everywhere. […]