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Poverty report shows Sonoma County's Latino families struggl...

More than 60 percent of Latino households in Sonoma County are barely getting by on incomes of $25,000 or less. Compare that to only 18.5 percent for the county as a whole. Nearly 14 percent of children in Sonoma County and 16 percent in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 29 2013 | Comments : 0

U.S. Child Poverty Second Highest Among Developed Nations: R...

Can government spending lift poor children from poverty? A new report from UNICEF suggests it's possible. The latest edition of UNICEF's report on child poverty in developed countries found that 30 million children in 35 of the [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2012 | Comments : 0

Scraping through: 45% population living below the poverty li...

ISLAMABAD: As many as 45.7% of the entire population is living under the poverty line, according to a door-to-door survey carried out by Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). The results sharply negate the outcome of another official s [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Southern Poverty Law Center report cites discrimination in w...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- One of the groups fighting to overturn Alabama's immigration law issued a report today citing instances of discrimination against Latinos after the law was enacted. The Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Cent [...]

Posted On : Feb, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty a stark spectre for 79m Pakistanis: Report

According to a study titled “Institutional Imperatives of Poverty Reduction”, by 2011-2012 as much as 43.1 per cent, or 79.1 million persons in the country will be destitute. The research was undertaken by Akmal Hussain; a pro [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty fueling unrest in Nigeria's Kano, says report

KANO, Nigeria — Poor governance, poverty and unregulated migration have sparked a security crisis in Nigeria's city of Kano, where Islamists killed at least 185 last month, said a report released Wednesday. The governor of the [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

London's poverty and inequality are worst in England, says r...

As urban riots expert Wouter Vantisphout pointed out during his recent visit to the capital, bouts of burning and looting have tended to happen in big cities that are feeling a bit too pleased with themselves. He named Detroit in the 1960 [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Four in 10 disabled young living in poverty, report says

Four in 10 disabled young people in England are living in poverty, amounting to a "staggering" 320,000 children. And the figure will rise because of government cuts to welfare payments, according to a report by The Children' [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

USA POVERTY REPORT

The Americans living in poverty are doing better than they have ever been and the definition of poverty needs to be redefined, says a latest study by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. The stud [...]

Posted On : Jul, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

B.C. still worst in country on child poverty: report

British Columbia has registered the highest rate of child poverty in the country for the eighth year in a row, child and youth advocacy coalition First Call said Wednesday. "We're still the worst of all the provinces," [...]

Posted On : Jun, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Report finds poverty myths rampant in Canada

More than half of Canadians think a family of four can get by on $30,000 a year or less, while a similar number believe that if poor people really want to work, "they can always find a job." A new Salvation Army report exp [...]

Posted On : Mar, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Report notes increase in Michigan child poverty

Michigan's decade-long economic slump has pushed more children into poverty and put more stress on social safety net programs that could help them and their families stay afloat, according to a Kids Count in Michigan report released [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

U.S. Poverty rate higher than expected, latest report shows

The Census Bureau has released new figures that show the number of poor people in America is much higher than previously reported. Under the revised census formula, overall poverty in 2009 stood at 47.8 million people. That's compare [...]

Posted On : Jan, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

One in 12 Colorado families is in poverty, according to new ...

One in 12 Colorado families is in poverty despite having family members employed, according to a study released Monday by the Bell Policy Center. The number of working poor families in the state has grown by 51 percent in the past six ye [...]