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Picturing hunger in America
"Hunger Through My Lens" gives digital cameras to food stamp recipients, asking them to chronicle what it's like to be hungry in America. So far, 15 women from all walks of life have participated.
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Tax Evasion: The Main Cause of Global Poverty
The OECD has estimated that developing countries lose an estimated 3 times more to tax havens than they receive in foreign aid each year. It is what Raymond Baker, the Director of Global Financial Integrity has called the “ugliest chapter in global economic affairs since slavery.” If you read this article very quickly, only another 28 children will have died from hunger by the time you’ve finished it.
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My 13-Year Effort to Save a Boy in Haiti
As a teenager, I began sponsoring a poverty-stricken boy in the Caribbean. Twelve years and thousands of dollars later I flew down to meet him—and to learn if my efforts did any good at all.
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Most Economically Thriving U.S. Cities Have Greatest Income Inequality
The disparity between rich and poor Americans is most prominently on display in the nation’s urban powerhouses like New York, San Francisco, and other cities thriving economically. In contrast, income inequality is not as big a problem in cities with more modest economic outcomes, like Columbus, Ohio, and Wichita, Kansas. Essentially, cities said to be “vibrant” because of their total amount of income don’t do a very good job of sharing their wealth.
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Frances Fox Piven | Extreme Poverty Has Been Used to Divide and Terrify Working People for Centuries
In 'Imagine Living in a Socialist USA,' Frances Fox Piven argues that the guarantee of a universal income would facilitate a new economic fairness and stability to a financial system careening out of control.
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Tiny houses help address nation's homeless problem
While tiny houses have been attractive for those wanting to downsize or simplify their lives for financial or environmental reasons, there's another population benefiting from the small-dwelling movement: the homeless.
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“Shameful”: Up to a third of the world’s food is wasted
We produce enough food to end hunger. Why isn't it ending up on more people's plates?
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100-year-old Saudi beggar dies leaving million-dollar fortune
Over 50 years of panhandling on the streets of Jeddah had taken its toll on her and residents of the downtown al-Balad district never suspected that their blind, haggard centenarian neighbor had secretly amassed a fortune and real estate portfolio that rivaled those of the city’s millionaires.
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The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence
Most states shut down their debtors’ prisons more than 100 years ago; in 2005, Harpersville, Alabama, opened one back up.
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It Saves Millions To Simply Give Homeless People A Place To Live
It is cheaper to give homeless people a home than it is to leave them on the streets. The latest analysis to back up this fact comes out of Charlotte, where researchers from the University of North Carolina Charlotte examined a recently constructed apartment complex that was oriented towards homeless people.
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The 67 Richest Are as Wealthy as the World's Poorest 3.5 Billion
Oxfam International, a poverty fighting organization, made news at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year with its report that the world’s 85 richest people own assets with the same value as those owned by the poorer half of the world’s population, or 3.5 billion people (including children). Both groups have $US 1.7 trillion. That’s $20 billion on average if you are in the first group, and $486 if you are in the second group.
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There's a Class War Going On and the Poor Are Getting Their Butts Kicked
According to a recent report from the International Monetary Fund, income inequality has risen in nearly all advanced economies over the past two decades. In the U.S., the share of income captured by the richest 10% of the population jumped dramatically from around 30% in 1980 to 48% by 2012, while the portion grasped by the population’s richest 1% more than doubled, from 8% to 19%. Other data shows that since 2009, the 1% captured 95% of all income gains; the bottom 90% of people got poorer.
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My life in London's houseboat slums
Where do you live if you cannot afford London's soaring rents? I took the only home I could find: a tiny, mouldy room in a freezing barge on the Thames. And there are many desperate people in the same situation
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Growing up poor is bad for your DNA
A rough childhood doesn’t just make you grow up faster; it could actually make your body grow old early. In research studying how day-to-day circumstances affect our DNA, researchers have found evidence that social stresses from poverty could wear down children’s genes, making them vulnerable to cancer and age-related disorders at an earlier age.
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The Cambodians who stitch your clothing keep fainting in droves
It should have been an extraordinary scene: more than 100 factory hands fainting in unison as if possessed by spirits. But in Cambodian garment factories, which play a major role in supplying American malls, mass fainting is no longer a freak phenomenon. It’s disturbingly common. The enigmatic problem is persistent despite waves of government studies, activist campaigns and vows to investigate factory conditions by global fashion empires such as H&M.
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More college students battle hunger as education and living costs rise
A problem known as “food insecurity” — a lack of nutritional food — is not typically associated with U.S. college students. But it is increasingly on the radar of administrators, who report seeing more hungry students, especially at schools that enroll a high percentage of youths who are from low-income families or are the first generation to attend college.
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The food poverty scandal that shames Britain
The shocking scale of food poverty in Britain is exposed today by new figures showing record numbers of people are reliant on handouts because of punitive benefits sanctions. More than 900,000 people were given emergency food in the past year, an increase of 163 per cent, according to figures from the Trussell Trust, the biggest food bank charity. The explosion in demand has coincided with an increase in those seeking help following a benefit sanction.
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Mapping Poverty in America
Data from the Census Bureau show where the poor live.
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The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest
After three decades of slow growth, median income in the U.S. trails that of Canada. Poor Americans now make less than the poor in several other countries.
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1.6 million Americans don’t have indoor plumbing. Here’s where they live
The Pew Research Center's excellent FactTank blog reported Tuesday that the Census Bureau is considering dropping a number of questions from its American Community Survey. The ACS has been a perennial target of Republican lawmakers, who say that its questions on everything from household income to commute times constitute an invasion of privacy.
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