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”

 

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Slight increase in NYC-area suburban poverty

  
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  The New York Times says experts from Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution analyzed census figures for the new report on American poverty.
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• Quotes of the Day – Pope Francis Edition

  
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  When it comes to social justice issues that deal with the economy, the Church is usually spot on. From Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good- Francis said that “[t]he worship of the golden calf... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Our Increasingly Poor Suburbs

  
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  The Brookings Institution confirms that the suburbs are now experiencing conditions that Flint and other cities have been facing for decades: "The poor have typically been concentrated in big cities and rural America. Increasing poverty in the New York metropolitan area’s historically affluent suburbs ...
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• [round-up] Monday feminist round-up (20th May 2013)

  
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  All else this week, then. - Think Progress updates on US college campuses which are starting to combat high rates of rape, and rape culture, on campus . It’s not so many, alas. - Bitch has got an interesting piece on women-only comedy spaces . - sianandcrookedrib discusses the shaming of single mothers on ...
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• Pensioners on a seventh of minimum wage

  
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  Filed under: Pensions Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire The minimum wage will be a distant pipe-dream for the average current and future pensioner, according to research by pension provider Liberty SIPP. So just how miserable is life set to be, and what can we do about it? The company calculated that a person ...
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• A Case Study for Human Development Program Oportunidade

  
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  A Study about Human Development Program Oportunidade The purpose of this research is to use the case study approach to determine how coordination is achieved in the Program for Human Development: Oportunidades (Opportunities). Oportunidades is the largest anti-poverty program in Mexico. The program has its origins ...
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• A Case Study on Selecting High-income Generating Activities for Micro-entrepreneurs: Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia

  
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  A Case Study about Selecting High-income Generating Activities for Micro-entrepreneurs: Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia Abstract :~ Poverty eradication has been one of the most important concerns in developing countries. Many of the governments of these countries have initiated some forms poverty alleviation programs to ...
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• NYC lawmakers furious over ghetto tour by Bronx bus company

  
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  Tourists are crowding onto a Bronx bus tour that promises "a ride through a real New York City GHETTO " — and local politicians are furious. Three times a week, Real Bronx Tours takes riders — mainly white Europeans and Australians — on a trip that includes stops at food-pantry lines and a "pickpocket" park. ...
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• The Case against inequality.

  
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  The library has Max Rashbrooke’s book  Inequality : a New Zealand crisis – and what we can do about it on order and it is due to be published in June. The ARW site has this to say about the author. Journalist Max Rashbrooke has written for national newspapers and magazines in Britain and New Zealand, ...
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• Ponderings of A Proclaimed Mugwump-Need for Positive Politics

  
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  Mugwump- is a term which stands out because of its peculiar sound, if you do not know the meaning, and stands out for the liberating meaning, if you understand the meaning of it. I came across this term while reading the The Autobiography of Mark Twain , wherein he wanted to petition the government and hesitated on ...
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• Ecosystem Value 3D

  
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• For the love of a mum @childrensociety

  
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  There was a young girl, Well call her Kat. She had a small child, They lived in a flat. She wanted to stand, On her own two young feet. But everyone assumed, She was a benefit cheat. This mother called Kat, Knew what people said. She tried not to care, But she cried in her bed. If theyd cared to look, Theyd have seen ...
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