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Bucking the Trend: Poverty Reduction and Inequality in Latin...

Recent data show that poverty is falling around the world. Today, 43 percent of people are considered to be living in "poverty" (on less than $2 per day), compared to 30 years ago when almost three-fourths of the developing worl [...]

Posted On : Jun, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA Rediscovering poverty

It has been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, "discovered" poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington's engaging book The Other America. If this discovery now seems a little overstated, like C [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty in America?

According to CBS News, “the number of people in the U.S. living in poverty in 2010 rose for the fourth year in a row, representing the largest number of Americans in poverty in the 52 years since such estimates have been published b [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Redefining poverty: America's poor have luxuries, study show...

The government may need to change their definition of poverty, according to a new study published by the Heritage Foundation. Conducted by Robert Rector, a senior research fellow in the Domestic Policy Studies Department at the Heritage F [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Black leaders regroup to address widening poverty among Afri...

Two decades ago, 22 black leaders gathered for a retreat on farmland in rural Tennessee once owned by writer Alex Haley. The reason for the gathering, which included historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights matriarch Dorothy Height, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Why Poverty Spreads Across America

Pockets of poverty, like the sores of some malignant disease, are spreading across America, as its states and cities go broke and bankrupt. “Camden, New Jersey, stands as a warning of what huge pockets of America could turn into,&r [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Poverty is on the rise in the suburbs of America, census dat...

Kansas Citians find themselves tested by the recession in dozens of ways, but none more severely than those pushed into poverty. Here is another test: (1) True or false? Measured strictly by the poverty rate, the Kansas City metro area h [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Latin American Poverty Rises

Although new signs of recovery are encouraging international investment to resume, there is no doubt that the global economic crisis has left a trail of negative side effects in Latin America. One of the most serious is increased poverty in [...]

Posted On : Aug, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

What does Americas economic crisis mean for the truly poor?

For months, the airwaves and pages have been filled with talk about the devastating economic crisis. Many said that it played a major role in President-elect Barack Obama’s victory over Sen. John McCain, while others have [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Hunger and Poverty in America: The Myth Of Meritocracy

In respect to hunger & poverty in America, the U.S. people believe in a myth. The real myth is NOT that hunger and poverty don't exist within America. Albeit, the prevalence of poverty hunger in America is largely downplayed and ignored [...]

Posted On : Jul, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Poverty in America: Over 35 Million Living Below the Poverty...

The problem of poverty in America comes as a surprise. How can a wealthy nation experience poverty? Though the rate of poverty is lower in a developed nation like America than in Africa, the problem of poverty is real. Inner-cities and rura [...]

Posted On : Jul, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

A slum that nags site of Americas summit

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 [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Understanding Poverty In America

Poverty is an important and emotional issue. Last year, the Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty in the United States declaring that there were nearly 35 million poor persons living in this country in 2002, a small inc [...]