by Beth | Jul 4, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
DAROU SALAM DIOUF, Senegal – More than 1.1 billion people in developing countries wake up each morning faced with the same riddle of survival, forced to find some way to get by, like Mbaye, on less than $1 per day.Surviving on one dollar a day Sub-Saharan Africa...
by Beth | Jun 28, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”His son John Eisenhower writes, “The most fundamental conviction...
by Beth | Jun 25, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
June 20, 2004 – The poverty rate in the United States has risen over the past two years. Over 34.6 million people in the United States–one out of every eight Americans–are poor according to the official government definition. This is 12.1% of our...
by Beth | Jun 17, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
….The great hidden issue in America is the scandal that tens of millions of Americans who work full time — often more than full time — barely get by and can’t get ahead, while CEOs get zillions. The blue-collar middle class jobs are vanishing;...
by Beth | Jun 13, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON, June 12 – The Bush administration said Saturday that it would rescind a federal policy that threatened to cut food stamp benefits for several million low-income elderly and disabled people who save money on their medicines by using the new Medicare...
