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The New Face Of Poverty In America: You Can Have A Job But Still Go Hungry

Having written early and often about the U.S.’s descent into a corporatocracy, most recently here and here, I thought that I was pretty much tapped out on the subject. But then I read an absolutely mind-blowing statistic: One of every eight (...)

15 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Shaun Mullen

Hunger in the Heartland: Reflections from our neighborhood food pantry

CCC Food Pantry

The US Department of Ag’s figures in May broke a record: 34.4 million people used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program of aid to low-income people. Now one out of every nine Americans qualifies for "food stamps." That’s an increase of (...)

3 Sep. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Global poverty : the human-rights dimension

Global poverty : the human-rights dimension

The problems of the world’s poor are at their heart an issue of human rights. This sets a test for the world’s powerful. By Kate Allen of Amnesty International. The worldwide economic recession is working its way through every level of the (...)

29 mai. 2009 | | openDemocracy

You Have To Be Rich To Be Poor

The Washington Post has an interesting article up detailing some of the ways in which being poor can actually be more expensive, in some ways, than being rich. An excerpt : Prices in urban corner stores are almost always higher, economists say. And (...)

19 mai. 2009 | | Rob Port

I Thought I Was Retired But I Am Now Unemployed

I Thought I Was Retired But I Am Now Unemployed

A story of a former member of corporate America who lost all of his retirement savings, though he played by the rules. I retired in late 2006 with a conservative financial plan in place that would last through the lives of my wife and myself and still (...)

1 Apr. 2009 | | Pete Latona

The Dharavis of this World

We live in a world of much and plenty, and yet, in many parts around this World - there are millions who live in slums : in Dharavi, Mumbai, which is on about 6% of Mumbai’s land but holds about 50% of the city’s population ; in Kibera, (...)

27 fév. 2009 | | Moments In Words From Hadhramout

Poverty and the Recession

Poverty and the Recession

Ben Furnas and James Kvaal on the kind of dramatic increases in poverty that we’re facing absent a very robust recovery program : More than 12 million Americans are at risk. The number of people living in poverty will rise by 12.4 million by (...)

13 fév. 2009 | | Matthew Yglesias

Breaking the Vicious Circle of Chronic Poverty

Global Poverty Cartogram

Brussels - Academics and NGOs presenting the new Chronic Poverty Report call upon the governments to change their poverty reduction strategies. The Chronic Poverty Research Centre, an international coalition of universities and development NGOs has just (...)

21 Jul. 2008 | 2 comments | Keyvan Sayar

Food prices and the poor

Food prices and the poor

Dani Rodrik not only provides an important empirical point, but defends the practice of two-handed economics : Are higher world food prices good or bad for the world’s poor ? The real answer of course is that it depends on whether a poor household (...)

11 oct. 2007 | | The Filter^

Energy poverty and political vision, Alejandro Litovsky

Energy poverty and political vision, Alejandro Litovsky

The delivery of affordable, reliable and sustainable power to citizens is one of the key challenges of the 21st century. Alejandro Litovsky reflects on the importance of political leadership in addressing an acute global problem. Around 2.64 billion (...)

5 sep. 2007 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

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