by Beth | Feb 12, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The cost of feeding the hungry has risen to record levels according to the World Food Programme. The causes and the effects of the current high food prices are diverse. To help you get a grasp of what it all means, here are the answers to 10 key questions. There is...
by Beth | Jan 22, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“There are always a lot of headlines about poverty the day that the data comes out, but then those headlines fade, and the problem hasn’t gone away. What we need is a sustained focus by the media and our elected officials, and we need advocacy groups and...
by Beth | Jan 18, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Americans have been hitting the bottle…the water bottle, that is. Americans have mistakenly come to believe that water served in plastic is healthier than water out of the tap. (Actually, a governmewnt report shows that bottled water quality is less strictly...
by Beth | Jan 17, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Homelessness can and must be ended. But to do so requires a paradigm shift that says that American ideals of basic economic and social justice are too big to fail. It requires saying that we will not tolerate homelessness in America. It requires a commitment to the...
by Beth | Jan 15, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The key to alleviating world hunger, poverty and combating climate change may lie in fresh, small-scale approaches to agriculture, according to a report from the Worldwatch Institute. “If we shift just some of our attention away from production to consumption...
by Beth | Jan 8, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Got some bicycles rusting in your basement?  It could could have a second life as a water pump, grinder, or nut sheller. In fact, it could help these folks grind 3,000 pounds of corn a day in rural Guatemala. Using cast-off bikes from the United States and...
