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.

 

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “poverty ”

• Steve Beshear: Payday Loan Sharks’ Darling

  
  Page One — Authority: 544
  The Courier-Journal editorial board seems to have forgotten that Gas Station Governor is owned by the payday loan industry. But the paper’s leadership is rightly advocating for consumer protections. Take a trip down memory lane with Beshear: here , here , here & here . And don’t forget that time ...
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• Design Greeting Cards for Homebound Seniors

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 141
  The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a charitable organization that works to reduce the burden on the poor and needy around the city, is organizing a greeting card design team. They would like volunteers to help them design and send greeting cards to senior citizens who are homebound. Remember, Hanukah begins ...
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• "In Verse": Chronicling Communities in Crisis

  
  New Hampshire Public Radio — Authority: 571
  "In Verse" documents the lives of working mothers in Troy, New York through images, sound and verse.
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• Why Welfare Reform Fails Its Recession Test

  
  Inclusion: Women of Color Policy Network Blog — Authority: 122
  Although the welfare reform President Clinton signed into law seemed like a success, the recent recession has revealed just how deeply flawed it was from the beginning and has left many people unprepared for hard times. The caseload for TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the name we now give welfare) is ...
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• U.S.-born kids of illegal immigrants twice as likely as others to face poverty

  
  HispanicTips — Authority: 161
  Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information
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• The PBR, unemployment and poverty policy

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 568
  Today’s PBR contained some important policy announcements on welfare and labour market policy – but nothing earth shattering. The Young Person’s Guarantee will now be available to unemployed 18-24 year olds after 6 months of claiming JSA (with compulsory participation in the Community Task Force now starting ...
  6 hours ago

• Avotu Yard

  
  Riga Daily Photo — Authority: 128
  A typical yard on Avotu iela , the most poor and criminal street within Riga Center borders.
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• Free school meals to be extended to 500,000 more children

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Although measure is welcomed, there are concerns that Labour is backtracking on pledge to halve child poverty by 2010 Alistair Darlings promise to extend free school meals to 500,000 more primary school pupils ‑ a measure he said would lift another 50,000 children out of poverty ‑ was welcomed by campaigners. ...
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• Who Cares? Apathy Across America

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 504
  Last Thursday, I was running to catch a train, and I slipped at the top of an 18-step flight of stairs, causing my feet to fly backwards as my upper body lurched forward, like a cartoon. The next thing I knew, I was sliding and bumping down the stairs, head-first, until I reached the bottom, where I laid in shock for ...
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• Fired Up About Financial Reform

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 655
  I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore… Really.  I am.  Now you may think that this could well be a normal state of affairs for me, considering that I serve as Sojourners’ Director of Policy and…
  7 hours ago

• Public sector pay rises capped at 1%

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Darling promises to protect core services in health, education and police from tough spending climate Public sector pay rises will be capped at 1% for two years from 2011, the chancellor announced today as he promised to protect frontline services in health, education and the police force from the "tough and ...
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• Taxing banks to help those caught by crisis is ‘no brainer’ - Oxfam

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 140
  Responding to the Pre-Budget Report, Kirsty Hughes, Oxfam head of policy, said: “Asking those who caused the economic crisis to help pay the costs of recovery is a no-brainer. “A one-off tax on bankers’ bonuses to help young unemployed people is a start but it will barely begin to help the millions of people at ...
  8 hours ago

• Creating Jobs. Ideas for Governments

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 533
  One idea is to get governments to stimulate the world economy by providing small pieces of land to unemployed people throughout the world so that they can farm and provide for their families and sell produce for a little extra money. It has been found that large state run farms can be inefficient. With this in mind ...
  11 hours ago

• Tata Nano Will Come in Hybrid Flavor

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 669
  News from the Indian automotive world: the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest production car, will someday be available as a hybrid electric.Rumors became reality during the LA Auto Show, according to Wired, which reported a South Korean business paper got the scoop when Tata Chairman Ratan Tata let slip plans for a ...
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• Senate Democrats cause me to reach for my Pepto-Bismol

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 475
  This could be so simple. We can provide a safety net for all Americans. Medicare for all. Unfortunately, life isn’t simple. Whenever you get 50 or more folks together in their newspaper reporters and cameras and peoples jobs at stake, it isn’t that simple. So we been playing around with the public option. ...
  14 hours ago

• Ethiopia: Nearly five million Ethiopians will starve in the first six months of 2010

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 444
  Some 4.8 million Ethiopians will require emergency food and related aid costing $270 million for the first six months of 2010 in a country already plagued by prolonged drought and crop failure, according to United Nations estimates released today.“Despite the collaborative efforts of the Government and humanitarian ...
  16 hours ago

• Electricity for the Poor – What Copenhagen Really Needs to Confront

  
  MasterResource — Authority: 563
  When you fly overnight from Johannesburg to Europe the lights become thin just north of Lusaka, Zambia, a few more in Zambia’s Copper Belt and then nothing (and I mean nothing) until the North African coastline. For most of this 11-12 hour flight there are no artificial lights below. From the Sahara on south, but ...
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• Medical Ghetto?

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 440
  Sen. Alexander: "Dumping of 15 million low-income Americans into a medical ghetto called Medicaid that none of us or any of our families would ever want to be a part of for our health care…"...Moving 15 million Americans into this medical ghetto…"…Moving 15 million low-income Americans into a program called ...
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• Whos Out of Place?

  
  Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo — Authority: 129
  At a birthday party, I saw one of the best dressed little Congolese boy that I have ever seen.  He was about 5 years.   He was dressed in navy blue pin-striped suit.  He worn an open collar white shirt.  He had black dress shoe, too.  He looked out of place. In the mist of poverty conditions, even at a ...
  18 hours ago

• What Health Care Reform Means for Medicaid Recipients

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 148
  by Sabrina Shankman and Olga Pierce, ProPublica – December 7, 2009Using results from a questionnaire we did with American Public Media’s Public Insight Network, we’re looking at how the proposed health care reforms will actually affect people facing common health care coverage situations. See our previous posts ...
  23 hours ago

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