by Beth | Oct 23, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The SVDP is pleased to launch a booklet entitled Spend Less, Live Well � A Guide to Affordable Living in Refugee Week. The booklet contains useful information about living within a budget and shopping. It has been prepared specifically for migrants and refugees,...
by Beth | Oct 19, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Whole Foods Market, a leading natural and organic foods supermarket, invites customers to shop at any of its 177 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 25th, when five percent of total company sales will go directly to...
by Beth | Oct 18, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Vatican, Oct. 17 (CWNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) said that hunger and malnutrition are scandals, caused by selfishness, in a message to the director general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The Pope’s message...
by Beth | Oct 17, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The biggest increase in Social Security benefits since 1991 reflects a harsh reality of rising prices. High energy costs are driving the worst inflation in more than 25 years.Helen Huntley of the St. Petersburg Times Personal Finance Editor writes… October 15,...
by Beth | Oct 16, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
�In a natural disaster of this scope, we firmly believe that benefits and services should be provided to Katrina victims regardless of an individual�s immigration status . . . Now is the time to serve our common humanity and not discriminate against victims of the...
by Beth | Oct 16, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The World Development Report 2006 argues that equity is important not just for its own sake, but also because it can enhance growth and poverty reduction.Inequality of opportunity, both within and among nations, sustains extreme deprivation, results in wasted human...
