by Beth | Jun 8, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
SYDNEY, June 9, 2004 (smh.com.au): The gap between high and low incomes is growing – but not for the reasons you’d think, writes Ross Gittins in The Sydney Morning Herald According to a recent Roy Morgan poll, 88 per cent of people believe the gap between...
by Beth | Jun 8, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Joel Berg, executive director, New York City Coalition Against Hunger reflections on Hunger Awareness Day in the US June 2, 2004 Tomorrow is National Hunger Awareness Day, recently created to call attention to the growing problem of domestic hunger. But it will take...
by Beth | Jun 6, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON, June 5 — Federal and state officials are expressing alarm about the proliferation of food stores that cater to low-income people but charge more than other grocery stores, thus driving up the cost of a major federal nutrition program. The program, the...
by Beth | Jun 4, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
MELBOURNE, June 3, 2004 (theage.com.au): This (Australian) Government does not want to hear criticism – especially from the poor, writes Kenneth Davidson in The Age ….  When the poor speak, who listens? …. The ability of groups to provide...
by Beth | Jun 3, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
National Hunger Awareness Day, being observed Thursday by a coalition of anti-hunger organizations, raises the issue of why more Americans are not aware that hunger is a serious problem facing children and families across the United States. While America doesn’t...
by Beth | May 17, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Handicapped by a lack of donations, the U.N.-backed Roll Back Malaria campaign will likely fall far short of its goal of halving the number of malaria deaths worldwide by 2010, Agence France-Presse reports today.http://www.unwire.org/News/328_426_23904.asp...
