poverty

Poverty is a lack of the necessary money or financial holdings needed to sustain a socially recognized standard of living from members within a community. As such, it is often difficult to specify what poverty is without contextualizing the discussion.

Poverty may result in homelessness or malnourishment, which has spawned worldwide efforts to reform welfare systems directed at assisting those most in need. The economic poverty of its people is always a primary responsibility for government officials the world over.

Some argue that poverty is an inherent consequence of capitalism, which is certainly a debatable claim. Others, however, suggest that poverty arises as a lack of education or educational opportunities, skills or a mastery of trades and services.

Poverty is a popular topic in the blogosphere because of its ties to the world of politics and economics.  It has also become the cause du jour for celebrities like U2 frontman Bono, who has started his own foundation.

 

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “poverty”

 

• The true causes poverty

  
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  A wise was once quoted as saying that “poverty is the worse of all human evils and also the worse of all known human crimes.” Indeed, this might seem very subtle, but the truth still remains that poverty is an ugly reality that has been with the American civilization in decades and continues to pose a serious ...
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• Sean Hannity gives homeless caller Craig from Nashville some money: “Let me do something nice for you”

  
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  Craig from Nashville called in to Sean Hannity’s show Monday to complain about Obama– but the conservation soon turned to the fact that Craig from Nashville is a homeless man, living out of his car, doing everything he can to stay in his daughter’s life! But wait! There’s more! Craig from Nashville got a ...
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• Architects of Shantytowns

  
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  By Amitabh Pal, June 2013 Issue Wisdom from the Author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. read more
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• Canadians trimming food budgets in face of higher prices, RBC says

  
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  Bank report suggests as much as 91 per cent of Canadians plan to cut back food spending. By Allison Brogan, CBC News Canadian families are planning to cut back on the amount they spend at the grocery store in the face of rising food prices, a new report from one of Canada’s largest banks said Thursday. The RBC ...
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• Your Daily Quote

  
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  “No one expects you to take a vow of poverty. But I will say it betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.” – Barack … Continue reading →
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• Chicagoans Continue Three-Day March Calling On CPS To Keep Our Schools Open (VIDEO)

  
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  The West Side leg of the Chicago Teachers Unions (CTU) three-day march  against school closings saw dozens of parents, teachers and education activists blocking traffic throughout the areas streets Monday, chanting “Save Our Schools!” “We are marching to keep our schools open,” said Jesse Sharkey, vice ...
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• Letters: It Takes a Community (1 Letter)

  
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  A letter to the Editor.        
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• U.S. “Suburban Poor” Increasing Rapidly [STUDY]

  
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  The number of poor people living in suburban areas in the United Stated is increasing rapidly compared with the population of impoverished people living in the cities, according to a recent study released by Brookings Institution. Researchers found that the number of people living in the suburban areas in the ...
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• Parents are the silver bullet for kids in poverty

  
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  Parents, not teachers, are the “silver bullet” for kids in poverty , writes Pérsida Himmele in Charting My Own Course on Ed Week Teacher . Her immigrant father, who had an eighth-grade education, asked all seven of his children the same question. “To what college you go?”  Though we lived in the poorest ...
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• Dot Earth Blog: A Plan to Bring Sun-Powered Irrigation to Poor Farmers

  
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  Designers focused on improving lives for poor farmers have a solar-powered pumping plan.        
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• A Plan to Bring Sun-Powered Irrigation to Poor Farmers

  
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  Designers focused on improving lives for poor farmers have a solar-powered pumping plan.
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• CPS Policies Reinforce Segregation In Chicago, Finds CTU Report

  
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  On the 59-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Courts landmark decision to end segregation in public schools, Brown v. Board of Education , the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) released a report claiming widespread segregation still exists in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the district’s administration is doing ...
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• Black America, ‘We’ve got no time for excuses’

  
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  President Obama, on Sunday, delivered a touching autobiographic commencement address at Morehouse College, an all-male historically black college that is also the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, that will likely bother many progressives. Read more on Black America, ‘We’ve got no time for ...
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• More poor people now live in U.S. suburbs than cities

  
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  Reuters : More poor people now live in U.S. suburbs than cities (Reuters) - The number of people living in poverty in U.S. suburbs surpassed the number of poor in cities over the past decade, driven by strong growth in overall suburban populations, according to an analysis released on Monday. ... ... The number of ...
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• African Americans in Texas See Decreased Economic Mobility, Policy Report Shows

  
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  The economic status of African Americans in Texas has significantly declined during the first decade of the 21st century, according to a policy report released by the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis (IUPRA) at The University of Texas at Austin. The report, led by IUPRA Research Fellow Shetal ...
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• Adam Carolla rants about Los Angeles schools free breakfast program

  
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  On the grounds that A) it’s not government’s job B) Los Angeles is broke C) it indoctrinates children with the socialist mindset and D) they’re fat, so obviously they’re not starving E) breakfast isn’t the most important meal of the day… “Are schools just turning into daycare centers?” Adam ...
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• Report says poor are moving to nation’s suburbs

  
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  LOS ANGELES — A new report shows more poor people have moved to the nation’s suburbs, outnumbering those in urban areas. The Brookings Institution study released Monday says those in poverty living in suburbs jumped 67 percent between 2000 and 2011. But suburbs still have a smaller percentage of their population ...
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• How Lotteries Are Bad For Players, Winners, And States

  
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  Credit: Associated Press The highest Powerball jackpot in history , $590.5 million, is waiting to be claimed by the winner in the small town of Zephyrhills, Florida. While the lucky winner may feel a sense of exhilaration, there can be huge down sides of the lottery for those who play, those who win, and the state ...
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• Rate of suburban poverty in Des Moines is among nation’s lowest

  
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  Despite experiencing a large increase in poverty since 2000, the Des Moines metro area retains one of the lowest suburban poverty rates in the nation. The poverty rate in West Des Moines in 2011 was 5.9 percent, according to a report released this morning charting the rise of suburban poverty in the nation’s 95 ...
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• Poverty Flees to the Suburbs

  
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  Poor residents in cities and suburbs, 1970 - 2010 (millions) Brookings Institution analysis and ACS data Suburbs such as Highland Park (Detroit), Carol Stream (Chicago), and Forest Park (Atlanta) once stood for escape from the hard times of the inner city. Now their deceptively bucolic names conceal a national ...
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