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Anti-Poverty Programs Have Been Successful

Conservatives continue to assert that anti-poverty programs have failed when, in fact, they have saved millions of people from plunging into poverty. Fox News, the house organ for right-wingers, has led this disinformation campaign. Le [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

UALR, Clinton School to host poverty symposium

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Clinton School of Public service will host the first Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty conference on Tuesday and Wednesday at the UALR campus. David Si [...]

Posted On : Aug, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty stalks girl babies

Visit the Banjara thandas of the state bordering Andhra Pradesh and you confront the stark reality of their poverty. It is here that women are driven to killing their baby girls after giving birth to them as they cannot afford to raise th [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Poor South African kids unlikely to escape poverty: World Ba...

JOHANNESBURG: Inequalities in South Africa are threatening economic growth, with children born into poor families unlikely ever to escape poverty or reap the rewards of living in Africa’s largest economy. The World Bank&rsq [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty in the United States: The unfinished war

Nearly 50 years ago President Lyndon Johnson rallied the nation in support of a “War on Poverty.” It was a goal widely accepted as necessary and realistic. While total “victory” might not have been unachievable, th [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty and the 1 Percent on Long Island

Poverty and extreme wealth on Long Island, where I live, have been in the national spotlight in recent days. HBO this month broadcast a powerful documentary "Hard Times: Lost on Long Island." Filmmaker Marc Levin followed four L [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, the charitable foundatio...

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Posted On : Jul, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Child poverty increases in Wisconsin

The percentages of Wisconsin children living in poverty and whose parents lacked stable employment both showed significant increases in 2010, according to a new report that compares state trends in children's well-being. The increa [...]

Posted On : Jul, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Education: Why to end poverty

It is universally accepted fact that the most fundamental way out of poverty for women and girls is education. It’s often quoted in our society if you educate a man, you educate an individual, but when you educate a woman, you educa [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

For women in poverty, contraception is not top priority, sch...

In a devastating critique of plans for a redoubled international drive to promote contraception in the Third World, Greg Pfundstein and Meghan Grizzle point out that women living in poverty have many more immediate needs: for food, shelte [...]

Posted On : Jul, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Final Solution to African Poverty

A free online article of the Focus on Africa magazine of particular interest to me was that by Gamal Nkrumah, published on 22 Jan 2007. In this article, Mr Gamal advised that the only way forward for Africa was a continental union as envi [...]

Posted On : Jul, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty in India saddens Akshay

Bollywood star actor Akshay Kumar has been shocked to hear that a woman in Bihar sold her four-month-old son for Rs 62.40 and says that it is saddening to see such “abject poverty in a resourceful country like India”, Zee News [...]

Posted On : Jul, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty in Peru

Despite Peru's economic performance being among the best in Latin America poverty remains high and widespread. Peru had the fastest growing economy in the region in 2002 but unemployment was still very high and poverty reduction strat [...]

Posted On : Jul, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty: 1m children on the brink by 2015 warn charities

A joint study on behalf of the NSPCC, the Children’s Society and Action for Children predicts that the equivalent of three pupils in every school class will be facing serious deprivation by 2015. That would amount to a “moral [...]