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The poverty of a system “ Poverty is not only about having enough money. It is also about exploitation and oppression. Poverty is about politics, and the need is to devise political solutions to its underlying causes, which involves more than providing money”, ...

Billionaires trying to fix US poverty are the sign of a failed system - In December 2017, New York University law professor and United Nations consultant Philip Alston spent two weeks investigating poverty in the US . His report describes a parallel universe nested within the wealthiest nation of the world, one troubled by homelessness, debt, lack of sanitation, sickness, ...

Billionaires trying to fix US poverty are the sign of a failed system - As a recent UN report shows, America's poor are deeply isolated and kept at a distance not just from the very rich, but from the moderately comfortable. US inequality isn't a simple divide between urban and rural; even poor people who live and work next door are rendered invisible by the structure of ...

Forget the poverty trap – it's the wealth trap we need to break - He says the “wealth trap” in America is as much of a thing as the “ poverty trap” – it's very difficult to fall out of privilege because the system rescues ...

Chinese Communist leader defends globalization while US talks isolationism - On the contrary, far from extolling global capitalism, Xi’s speech carried a critical edge, pointing to the contradictions of a system that produces material wealth as never before while leading to increasing inequalities and social turmoil. Highlighting the lack of fairness in the international order, Xi called for priority to be given to job creation, innovation, green growth and, above all, tackling poverty. “Over 700 million people in the world,” he noted, “are still living in extreme poverty. For many families, to have warm houses, enough food and secure jobs is still a distant dream. This is the biggest challenge facing the world today.”

The ethical dilemmas of the modern health care system, from poverty to obesity : " A patient who had a head frame screwed into the skull for immobilization, is about to get a Gamma Knife surgery. Bad health is bad government, or so argues the director of the bioethics department at the National Institutes of Health Dr. Ezekiel ... 89.3 KPCC "

Why does the US have such an outlier child poverty rate? Our immigration system has a lot to do ... - Articles about America's high levels of child poverty are a media evergreen. Here's a typical entry, courtesy of the New York Times's Eduardo Porter: ...

Poverty and Health a Big Part of Child Welfare System : "This is not a time for blame, but a time to move forward toward a more positive future. That's what the head of the Child Welfare Review Panel had to say ...

GoM may moot dual system of food subsidy : "This is that families below the poverty line (BPL) be given food subsidy through direct cash transfer. And, those above the poverty line (APL) be distributed foodgrains at a level equal to the minimum support price (MSP) offered to farmers, ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Research shows Old Age Security system keeps seniors out of poverty OTTAWA - Research prepared for the federal government shows that the old-age benefits cited by Stephen Harper as perhaps unsustainable are a key factor keeping seniors out of poverty . The technical, 80-page paper shows that without Old Age Security or ...

Recycling Waste, Rebuilding Lives: Eliminating Poverty Through the Clean ... : In California , economic opportunity for one community in particular is still hard to come by, continuing a vicious cycle of poverty in the state. As a result of California's broken prison system, people with records who are re-entering the workforce ...

Poverty stifles Romania Yet, stabilizing the “rule of law” means acknowledging and legitimising the collapse, namely a poverty rate exceeding 40 pc, the highest mortality rate EU wide and a corruption so pervasive it even made inroads in the justice system, all of ... Ireland | United Kingdom | America | Las Américas | Stigmabase

Action needed to save informal carers from poverty : " The Dilnot Commission was established by the government in July 2010 to make recommendations on the funding system for formal social care in England. It will report in the summer, and a white paper is expected by the end of the year. ... Left Foot Forward "

Showboat Branson Belle ready to set sail for first time in 2011 : "11 when a combination of high winds and a faulty propulsion system caused the boat to become grounded at a location known as Poverty Point. Most crew and passengers had to spend the night on the vessel until a temporary road and ramp could be installed ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Oxfam 'Grow' Tackles Global Food Crisis : "Oxfam, the UK-headquartered NGO that fights global poverty , is doing just that with its new global campaign, "Grow," which focuses on one element of the poverty cycle: food injustice. The goal: "to build a better food system, one that produces enough ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Sources of Tax Revenue « European Anti Poverty Network Ireland ... : "Sources of Tax Revenue « European Anti Poverty Network Ireland. Posted on December 12, 2010 by Brian Greene. Over the past decade there has been a decisive shift away from direct taxation within the Irish system. ...

The Anti- Poverty Experiment That Could Fix America's Broken Welfare System - And even though that project might not tell us much about how a basic ... of dollars to prevent poverty , and yet one in seven of us still lives in poverty , ...

As America punishes its people, is US democracy on its deathbed? - A legalized system of bribing politicians means the nation is unable to address the worst poverty and most glaring economic inequality in the developed world. This, as the American middle class has died, and most Americans have regressed to Third World status, as one MIT economist has concluded.

International aid, but not as we know it Does this new geography of global poverty signal the end of aid for most countries, or a new kind of international co-operation? We argue a significant shift in the aid system is required. Put crudely, this shift would be from "Aid 1.0" (meaning aid ...

Famine in Somalia a disgrace to global management system: Ahmadinejad “Official statistics show that there are over three billion poor people around the world and over 1.2 billion people live in absolute poverty , indicating that the world has not developed properly despite claims made by pretenders to the management of ...