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The High Cost of Poverty: Why The Poor Pay More »
Posted by: myfairlady 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
You have to be rich to be poor. That's what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don't understand. The ...
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America's 10 Poorest Cities »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 2 weeks, 6 days ago in News
The Great Recession is rewriting the rules of American poverty. Data from the Census Bureau, released in September, show that during the first year of ...
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Revised formula counts more Americans in poverty »
Posted by: engineer 2 months ago in News
The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old ...
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Americans lacking health insurance rose in '08 - »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
The nation's poverty rate rose to the highest level since 1997 in 2008, while the number of people lacking health insurance rose to 46 ...
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Even in a recession, Americans have enough money to help the poor of the world --Katha Pollitt »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months ago in Political News
The gods of publishing must have had a good laugh when they arranged for philosopher Peter Singer to bring out The Life You Can Save ...
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The New Evangelical Politics »
Posted by: gamahuche 1 year, 2 months ago in News
Anyone who still doubts that the evangelical Christian world is going through a political revolution was not watching Pastor Rick Warren 's presidential forum this ...
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Living In Our Vans »
Posted by: barucci 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
August 2008Since the beginning of the mortgage crisis one and a half million Americans have lost their homes. With banks repossessing their houses, many have ...
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Afghanistan's continuing misery »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
More than seven years of Western aid has failed to make a real impact on daily life in Afghanistan, the BBC's Hugh Sykes reports ...
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William Kamkwamba: The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month ago in News
William Kamkwamba recounts his mission to overcome famine and poverty in his village by building a windmill from a picture in a library book.
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Suburbs feel pain of job losses »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Unemployment is rising faster outside of major cities than within them, according to a Brookings Institution report prepared for release Thursday.
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Why aid-addicted Africa remains in deep poverty »
Posted by: ameliog 10 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Over the last 50 years Western governments have paid out more than £400 billion of tax payers’ money in aid to Africa, but according to ...
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Bianca Jagger Sees G20 Missing An Opportunity »
Posted by: Mikunited 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Bianca Jagger thinks the G20 leaders overlooked a chance to take decisive action on world poverty and climate change at their meeting in London this ...
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BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Life in poverty-stricken North Korea »
Posted by: rightfromwrong 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
Italian journalist Piergiorgio Pescali has been a regular visitor to North Korea since 1995. His most recent visits, in June and August this year, took ...
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Climate change: ‘Suffering the Science’ »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Despite the overwhelming evidence on climate change, our leaders are not listening. The stories of its human impact from a new Oxfam report may be ...
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Brother Can You Spare a Dime »
Posted by: Spadecaller 1 year, 2 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
This blues oldie performed by Dr. John and Odetta was originally written during the depression (1931) by Yip Harburg (lyricist for the Wizard of Oz ...
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