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Punishment for poverty

Pakistan is the deadliest country not only for journalists but for utility consumers too. Though the number of deaths in the past year caused due to incidents such as violent protests against electricity loadshedding and gas shortages as [...]

Posted On : Dec, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty's the problem, not our teachers

Acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf recently reiterated his desire to be able to act more quickly to close or restructure failing schools. We could be on board with that — if we had any confidence that our state govern [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Yuguda To Fight Poverty Through Agric

Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda, has expressed his administration’s commitment to alleviating poverty in the state through agricultural production. The governor, who gave this indication through the project manager of B [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

LETTER: Poverty rises in right-to-work states

Recently The Republic published an editorial extolling the virtues of the proposed “right- to-work” legislation that Gov. Daniels hopes to pass in the next session of the Indiana General Assembly. Quoting from the editorial, & [...]

Posted On : Dec, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

When Children Become Victims of Poverty and Ignorance

The 'plights of the Akwa Ibom Children', as the Punch Newspapers editorial of 15 January, 2009 described the madness in the name of child-witches hunting and exorcising going on in the state, need the attention of every rational b [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty and causes of poverty in PAKISTAN

Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one d [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Erasing poverty one brush stroke at a time

Art students at W.C. Miller are participating in a unique exchange. They are painting 16 x 20 paintings about Canada or their identity and sending them to an orphanage in Uganda as part of a program called Brush Out Poverty. Cameron Cr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Shearer: Poverty 'no issue to play politics over'

New Labour leader David Shearer asked National to reconsider its decision to exclude Labour from the poverty committee it will set up under the confidence and supply agreement with the Maori Party. He made his call in his first major spee [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty reduction strategy discussed

A WORKSHOP on ‘Poverty Reduction Strategy’ was held here in a local hotel by the United Nations Development Programme’s project Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring Punjab which was attended by planning officials, devel [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty of children demands attention

Odds are he’d be a poor person. Poverty is now epidemic among America’s children, and getting worse. Yet none of the presidential candidates, and neither the Republican majority in the House nor the Democrats in the Senate and [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

The poverty debate

While a healthy debate has been going on for a long time on the methodology used to assess the size of the poor population, including on the relevance of a nutrition-based approach (as opposed to more multi-dimensional criteria) and on th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Child poverty will soar under Tories, adviser to David Camer...

CHILD poverty is to rise “for many years to come” under David Cameron, one of his advisers warned yesterday. Former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn urged ministers to "come clean and make clear" that the Governm [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Measuring poverty – and making it worse with welfare cuts

cIn your plea for public understanding about the inadequacy of unemployment benefits (Editorial, 8 December), it is wrong to call Seebohm Rowntree's "primary" poverty budget in support of a more critical approach to those fo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Nationwide poverty survey of BISP wins int’l praise

The step of conducting nationwide first ever poverty survey in the history of Pakistan has won the international praise for following best international practices, maintaining transparency and conducting the entire process in highly effic [...]