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Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that the top priority in the second half of his term will be reducing poverty, after the war against drug cartels took center stage in the first three years of his administration.
Australia must abolish policies that discriminate against Aborigines in its quest to lift its indigenous population out of Third World poverty, the head of an international human rights group said Wednesday.
A national study released Wednesday showed Alabama makes families living in poverty pay higher income taxes than any other state.
Colorado lawmakers have given initial approval to a package of bills aimed at reducing the number of people in poverty.
The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed.
The number of Gazans living in "abject" poverty has tripled this year to 300,000, or one in five residents, the Gaza head of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees said Thursday.
In words of praise rarely heard at the United Nations, leaders of several poor countries thanked the U.S. government and American taxpayers Tuesday for helping with economic development.
David Condon died broke and alone in a zipped-up tent on the banks of a South Carolina lake, his stomach empty and his lungs filling with fluid.
The nation's poverty rate rose to the highest level since 1997 in 2008, while the number of people lacking health insurance rose to 46.3 million, the Census Bureau reports.
The official poverty rate for Americans 65 years and older has long been 10 percent, the lowest among age groups. The true rate could be nearly twice that high, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula that is gaining credibility for adding medical costs, geographic variations in cost of living and other factors.
The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.
The ranks of poor and uninsured Americans are likely increasing — with more than 38.8 million believed to be in poverty.
Now even the Pope says Argentina's sharp rise in poverty is a "scandal," and the government has been forced to agree, with former president Nestor Kirchner offering new poverty numbers that would represent a 50 percent rise this year alone.
Nearly one in four Iraqis lives below the poverty line, according to a study released Wednesday by an Iraqi government agency.
The global economic crisis has stymied the international community's effort to halve extreme poverty by 2015 and meet other goals to reduce hunger, fight disease and get young children to school, the World Bank warned on Friday.
A newly finished brick wall mostly obscures from the view of leaders arriving at the Summit of the Americas a slum that embodies their biggest challenges: drug-related violence and an economic crisis that threatens to erase gains against poverty.
Diane Sawyer felt a personal connection in reporting her latest documentary on American children living in poverty.
Rod Blagojevich is the third-highest-paid governor in the country, but you wouldn't know it from conversations recorded by federal authorities.
Natural disasters and a spike in food prices have been setbacks for impoverished Bangladesh's "encouraging" progress toward halving poverty by 2015, the World Bank said.
Musicians will.i.am and Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristin Davis and model Elle Macpherson have helped launch a new campaign to cut global poverty in half by 2015.
A food crisis and economic turmoil are threatening to scuttle U.N. goals to halve extreme poverty around the world by 2015, according to an EU report released Friday.
Being homeless in this upper crust enclave is not exactly like living on the street in other places. There are handouts of $2,000 and bottles of Dom Perignon, lucky finds of Gucci shoes and diamond-encrusted bracelets, a chance to rub shoulders with rich and famous locals such as Mark Wahlberg and Master P, even empty houses to live in.
In criticism aimed primarily at the United States, Japan and the European Union, a U.N. report said Thursday that rich nations haven't delivered on promises to help the world's poorest nations and must increase aid by $18 billion a year.
Government data painted a bleak economic picture for Michigan, where the auto industry's downward plunge has rippled across the state.
The number of people without health insurance fell by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Incomes edged up for the middle class while poverty held steady.
Priest in Britain Advises Congregation to Shoplift"My advice as a Christian priest is to shoplift," Jones reportedly told churchgoers during his Sunday sermon. "I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither."
Ivory Coast: Child Exploitation Rises With Poverty "Sharply rising poverty is causing exploitative child labour to increase says NGO Save the Children in its report "It's there it's difficult: exploitative child labour in Côte d'Ivoire," launched today.
'Thou shalt shoplift' says priestA priest from North Yorkshire has advised his congregation to shoplift if they find themselves in hard times. Father Tim Jones, the parish priest of St Lawrence and St Hilda in York, said people should steal from big chains rather than small businesses.
Poverty Rate Jumps in Rural America | Daily Yonder | Keep It RuralThe number of Americans living below the poverty line increased by more than 3.2 million between 2003 and 2008 — and a disproportionate number of those newly poor people live in rural America.
Pockets of White America Are in the Throes of an Existential Crisis | Rights and Liberties | AlterNetIt's census time and the experts are saying that whites are expected to be a minority within the coming years.
Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression | Politics | AlterNetThe headline says it all but I hope it's not the case. We must never stop fighting the forces of oppression. Let us all get re-energized and start fighting back by voting all politicians out of office who voted for the bailout. Together, we all can take this country back.
House panel passes NCAA football playoff bill, takes no action on ending global hunger legislation.Recently, a House of Representatives panel approved potential legislation for forcing the NCAA to adopt a college football playoff system. ...
Newsviners, I have been gone a while.....lots on my plate; job (still have one), family, friends, working on my book, working on my MBA...no real excuses, just a simple update..... 2 + 2 = 4.......right, is it still simple math, right?
Racial disparities the reason for Louisiana's poverty rankingThe Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation, which collects data for an annual national report on child wellbeing, funded the report. Louisiana has consistently ranked poorly in the national report.
Missing more than a meal Child hunger in the US, called the 'silent epidemic,' PHILADELPHIA -- Three weeks before he was elected president, Barack Obama set an audacious goal: end hunger among children in the United States by 2015.
UK bans Kenyans over corruption The UK has issued a travel ban to more than 20 Kenyan citizens accused of corruption, the High Commissioner says. Rob Macaire said the ban was a last resort, pointing out that no senior official had ever been convicted of corruption by a Kenyan court.
Homelessness In America.... My Final ChapterIn the past 6 months, some of you here have been following my coverage on what it can really mean to be homeless in the United States.
A challenge to the United States Senate: "Come and see this catastrophe" - wrenching videosI've been at the Kansas City Free Health Clinic for the last three days. I thought I understood more than most just how difficult life is for so many Americans in our blighted country. I didn't.
Philippine Poverty up despite Economic Growth The report also said the Philippine poverty reduction rate of 0.47 percent per year between 1990 to 2005 was slower than in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, adding that only in the Philippines has the overall number of poor people increased during that period.
One in four U.S. households out of bank systemThe Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the agency charged with protecting U.S. bank deposits, said 25.6 percent of households are "unbanked" or "underbanked." It said those households are largely either low-income or minority, or both.
Poor Disproportionally Hit By Economic CrisisAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people classified as living in extreme poverty has risen since the year 2000 by more than a third to 17.1 million.
Republicans are using every imaginative trick in the book to stop healthcare reform, including admitting that it's necessary. Mostly, they are working hard to stop any meaningful change, lest it be viewed as success by the Democratic Party.
BBC News - Dubai crisis sparks job fears for migrant workersThe large numbers of migrant workers in Dubai from Asia and the Middle East are likely to bear the brunt of the emirate's severe credit problems. For them Dubai had offered an escape from poverty in their home countries.
A case against government Part 4: The Invisible Hand OppressesOften we hear how a government is needed because the people are greedy. We hear of the evil capitalist and his crusade for himself. We hear that we must assert control over others because this greedy capitalist will look to keep his job and wealth over the welfare of others.
In the eighteen months since the company at which my husband worked for almost 13 years closed, I have had as many as four jobs as a time. This makes it quite hard to be the mother of three children, two of whom have special needs.
Structural change: "Tragedy wrapped in a weird complacency"aul Krugman posted a very short blurb in his blog on Friday, entitled: "Good news is bad news." It was about how even a small bit of good news (in this instance, a monthly drop of two-tenths of a percent in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' U.3 Unemployment Index) about how our nat …
President Obama, world hunger and the Christmas before the Marshall PlanAs the holidays approach, President Obama and his administration see a world where more than 1 billion people are suffering from hunger. ...
The surge we need at homeSometimes, messes are so big that you just can't fix them. The best thing to do is to leave it alone, and walk away, before you make things worse.
UN: People With Disabilities Face Huge Obstacles The United Nations says hundreds of millions of disabled people around the world continue to face colossal obstacles in their efforts to lead a meaningful life. For the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is commemorated on December 3, the Unit …
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