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Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
More than two decades ago, then-33-year-old Dan Price had a wife, two small children, a high-interest mortgage, and a stressful job as a photojournalist in Kentucky. He worried daily about money and the workaday grind.
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Poverty: Not always with us
The world has an astonishing chance to take a billion people out of extreme poverty by 2030
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A Fake Slum for Luxury Tourists Who Don't Want to See Real Poverty
It's estimated that one in eight people worldwide live in so-called slums, which, in some cities, makes visiting these informally maintained neighborhoods unavoidable. Although controversial, the practice of "slum tourism" has become a popular way for tourists to engage with poverty on a personal level. But why go visit an actual slum when you can simply stay at a luxury resort that looks like a slum?
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Hunger in America: By the numbers
“Food insecurity” is not knowing where your next meal is coming from, and one in seven American households experienced it at some point last year. At the same time, we're suffering an obesity epidemic and throw away an enormous percentage of the food we produce. What’s going on?
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I tried to see where my T-shirt was made, and the factory sent thugs after me.
Aruna, a 19-year-old nurse I met in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a lot like some of my friends in Washington, DC—bright, single, self-assured, loves her job. She speaks quickly and eloquently, not stopping to drink her tea and hardly ever even pausing to breathe. When I first meet her in Coimbatore, a city known for its textile industry, she is on her lunch break, wearing her freshly starched white uniform and a traditional red bindi dot on her forehead.
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How tech can fix the food system
The holiday season is a time of high contrasts: we indulge in gluttony and gleeful commercialism while also upholding the values of charity, altruism, and goodwill towards all. It is as good a time as ever to take a closer look at our global food system, and the inefficiencies that result in a third of the food produced going to waste, or nearly a billion people in the world who are hungry.
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Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life
There are more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression. This is one of their stories.
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Leo The Homeless Coder Finished His App, And You Can Download It Right Now
The homeless man who learned to code released his first app today, a ride-sharing platform called "Trees for Cars."
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How America abandoned its “undeserving” poor
With poverty on the rise in the late 1970s, Reagan conservatives waged war on the needy — and won
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BILL GATES: 2013 Was A Huge Year For The Things That Really Matter
Bill Gates is proud of how the world improved in 2013. "You’re probably seeing a lot of people’s year-end lists right now, going through the best movies, books, YouTube clips, grumpy cat memes, etc. I thought I would share a different kind of list: some of the good news you might have missed," he wrote in a blog post. Here's a summary of Gates' 2013 Good News List, and we have to admit, this stuff is REALLY good
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Where Life Has Meaning: Poor, Religious Countries
Research indicates that lack of religion is a key reason why people in wealthy countries don't feel a sense of purpose.
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Four Years After Earthquake, Many In Haiti Remain Displaced
Four years ago Sunday, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, destroying its capital of Port-au-Prince and killing more than 200,000 people. Today, much of Port-au-Prince looks like it did before the quake. Most of the tent camps in the city itself are gone, and streets are loaded with overcrowded buses and women selling vegetables.
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Why So Many Emerging Megacities Remain So Poor
How globalization has changed the nature of urban development.
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Utah is Ending Homelessness by Giving People Homes
In 2005, Utah figured out that the annual cost of E.R. visits and jail says for homeless people was about $16,670 per person, compared to $11,000 to provide each homeless person with an apartment and a social worker. So, the state began giving away apartments, with no strings attached. Each participant in Utah’s Housing First program also gets a caseworker to help them become self-sufficient, but the keep the apartment even if they fail.
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Oxfam: Combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to that of poorest 3.5 billion
Global inequality has increased to the extent that the £1 trillion combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to that of the poorest 3.5 billion - half of the world's popul
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Pope to global elite: Do more for poor
Pope Francis has challenged the world's business elite to do more to help the poor and vulnerable. In an address read by Cardinal Peter Turkson at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics said it was intolerable that thousands die each day from hunger. The pope urged leaders to adopt a new "political and business mentality" and to put their skills to work for the benefit of those living in dire poverty.
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The World's 85 Richest People Are as Wealthy as the Poorest 3 Billion
The report that everybody's talking about this morning is Oxfam's opus on global inequality, which leads with an eye-popping statistic: The richest 85 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the entire global population. Yes, that equation works out to: 85 > 3,000,000,000.
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The Brazilian Slum Children Who Are Literally Swimming in Garbage
According to government estimates, some 6,500 children live in the slums in the Arruda and Campina Barreto neighbourhoods on Recife’s north side. Many of them wade through garbage to eke out a living just as Paulo does, but it was only after his image appeared in the press that the local government and international authorities took notice of their plight.
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Too poor for pop culture
Where I live in East Baltimore, everything looks like "The Wire" and nobody cares what a "selfie" is
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The Powerball lottery: is it really a stupidity tax?
Most people view lotto tickets as throwing money away, but the poor don't have many legal options available to get rich
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