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poverty stories: 84 news summaries

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ANALYSIS

 Downturns Spark 'Witch 
 Hunts' Against Elderly 

People lash out during tough times, researchers explain

Sep 20, 08 8:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - "Witch-hunting” is a hot term these days as angry Wall Street investors pine for revenge—but in some countries they take it literally, Tim Harford writes in Slate. In Tanzania, Bolivia, and India, elderly women are often targeted as witches when resources are scarce. Tanzanian women are killed by... More »

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economics • Tanzania • poverty • witchcraft • witches

Moms' Stress Can Lead to Fat Children: Study

Kids seek comfort in food as mothers worry about money, job

Sep 2, 08 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Moms stressed out by poverty could be driving millions of US kids younger than 10 to take refuge in food and become overweight, a study finds. The stress may be linked to heavy work schedules and health-insurance troubles, among other issues, Reuters reports. The study argues for better aid to... More »

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parenting • children • mothers • family • stress • poverty • overweight

Vogue's India Poverty Shoot Pits Couture vs. Culture

Mag touts barrier-breaking 'power of fashion;' 'downright distasteful,' others say

Sep 2, 08 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vogue India is taking heat for a haute couture fashion spread that uses poverty-ridden locals for models, the New York Times reports. A toothless, barefoot man holding a $200 Burberry umbrella and a rumpled baby in a $100 Fendi bib are just two examples that have irked some critics in... More »

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fashion • India • photography • Vogue • poverty • fashion designer • fashion industry

 Ranks of
 Uninsured
 Drop by 1M

Poverty rate unchanged, median incomes rise

Aug 26, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - There were a million fewer uninsured Americans last year, the first annual decrease under the Bush administration, according to Census Bureau data released today. Median household incomes also rose slightly for the third consecutive year, while the nation’s poverty rate held steady at just over 12%, AP reports. The... More »

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Bush administration • health care • health insurance • Census Bureau • poverty • US economy • poverty rate • George W. Bush

Gates Urges Companies to Get Creative to Improve Lives


He ruminates on how to tweak market forces to help more people

Jul 31, 08 6:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Gates tweaks his corporate colleagues with an essay in Time urging businesses to look harder for ways to extend the benefits of capitalism to a greater portion of the global population. As a philanthropist, he says, he recognizes the need for nonprofit work, but as a businessman, he knows... More »

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philanthropy • Bill Gates • malaria • humanitarian • capitalism • poverty • incentives

 Study: Homeless Numbers Drop

First study to count homeless over a full year finds numbers down 15% in '07

Jul 30, 08 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The number of chronically homeless Americans fell by 15% last year, a study has found. The survey is the first to track homelessness over a full year, the Los Angeles Times reports. Homeless advocates argue that the promising numbers may in part be due to different counting methods—and that... More »

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housing • homeless • poverty • USA • housing crisis • Department of Housing and Urban Development

Piglets-for-Girls Bargain Saves Thousands

Nepalese spared from slavery, sent to school by non-profit program

Jul 22, 08 4:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - An American’s plan to keep poor Nepalese families from selling daughters into slavery by offering them pigs has saved thousands of girls in the Himalayan country, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The non-profit founded by Olga Murray gives pigs (which, grown, fetch the same $35-75 buyers would pay for... More »

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poverty • Nepal • pig • indentured servitude • girl slaves • Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation • Olga Murray

 African Women Take
 Brunt of Food Crisis 

As prices soar, mothers feed the men and eat what remains

Jul 20, 08 5:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - As food and fuel prices continue to climb, impoverished families across Africa are hurting worse than ever—and women are suffering the most. The Washington Post follows one Burkina Faso mother in her daily struggle to feed her family and survive in a culture that puts her last at mealtime.... More »

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Africa • hunger • poverty • Burkina Faso

analysis

 Why Is Memphis the New
 South Bronx? 

Demolition of low-income housing has only redistributed the problem

Jun 29, 08 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite a flattened national crime rate in large cities, Memphis was recently dubbed the nation's leader in violent crime, prompting Atlantic Monthly to ask: “Why has Elvis’s hometown turned into America’s new South Bronx?" Local experts offer an unsettling answer: demolition of low-income housing projects isn’t... More »

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poverty • gang violence • urban poverty • Memphis • public housing

 Obama 'Wants 
 to Talk White': 
 Nader 

Third-party maverick says Dem avoids poverty, favors 'appeal to white guilt'

Jun 25, 08 4:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ralph Nader says Barack Obama "wants to talk white" and "appeal to white guilt" while ignoring poverty, the third-party presidential candidate told the Rocky Mountain News yesterday. The consumer advocate said the only thing that separated Obama from past Democrats is that he’s “half African-American,"... More »

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Barack Obama • race • poverty • Ralph Nader • white guilt

 Axis of Wealth Shifting East 

India, China claim biggest surge in new millionaires

Jun 25, 08 2:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nations once known for extremes of poverty—China, India and Brazil—are now producing more of the world's millionaires and super rich than ever before, according to a new study of the globe's wealthiest entrepreneurs. The US is losing ground to emerging markets when it comes to producing personal wealth,... More »

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China • Russia • India • Brazil • poverty • millionaires • emerging markets • World Wealth Report

OPINION

 How Government 
 Can Buy You Happiness 

Economists need to start thinking about quality of life

Jun 19, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - While the jury's still out on whether money can buy happiness, a higher gross domestic product certainly doesn't. In rich countries, well-being really does depend on non-material things like family stability, a friendly community, and job security—and economists should start incorporating quality-of-life issues into policy, John Cassidy writes in... More »

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economic growth • economics • poverty • GDP • happiness

 Gated
 Enclaves
 Soar Above
 Indian Slums 

Wealthy Indians move into posh residences to escape impoverished cities

Jun 9, 08 10:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gated communities are emerging across India  to offer the country's growing group of wealthy professionals Western luxuries that the government cannot. One exclusive high-rise complex in Gurgaon, a suburb of Delhi, has its own security guards, landscaped lawns, and private school. Air conditioning, elevators, running water are all uninterrupted, while... More »

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India • Asia • poverty • economy • Hamilton Court • gated communities

TV review

 Diet Duchess 
 Leaves Sour Taste 

Lecturing poor on diet a sicking symptom of TV's feast on self-respect

May 23, 08 4:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Watching Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson lecture some of Britain’s poorest—and hungriest—on the virtues of healthy eating on the UK show "The Duchess of Hull" may turn stomachs, but it's just the latest offering from a lengthy menu of a la carte snobbery perpetuated by today’... More »

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reality TV • health • United Kingdom • diet • royalty • poverty • Royal Family • Sarah Ferguson

 Rice Is the New Oil 

Rising food prices threaten a more serious global crisis

Apr 27, 08 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Even as the burgeoning price of oil slaps consumers at the pump, a darker global market crisis looms as rising commodities prices compound the pressures of poverty worldwide. The UN has said that spiking food prices have started "a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people... More »

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China • food • United Nations • India • hunger • poverty • food prices • speculation • rice prices • hunger riots

Life Grows Shorter for America's Poor 

Smoking, obesity blamed for spread
of 'death gap'

Apr 22, 08 10:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Life is getting shorter for many of America's poorest people, USA Today reports. Life expectancy has risen in most of the nation since 1960 but in some areas—including the Deep South and Appalachia—life expectancy has dropped significantly, according to a study published in The Public Library of Science.... More »

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obesity • health • smoking • life expectancy • poverty • inequality

 Not an Icon, a Man 

Would civil rights legend be controversial in today's political climate?

Apr 4, 08 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Washington Post looks past the legend at the multidimensional figure scholars and King's associates consider his true legacy. ”His challenge was much bigger than being nice," says historian Taylor Branch. "It was even bigger than race.... More »

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race • race relations • poverty • civil rights • Vietnam War • Martin Luther King Jr. • 1960s • Jeremiah Wright • civil rights movement • Taylor Branch

McCain Deems 1983 Vote Against MLK Day a 'Mistake'

Events marking 40th anniversary of civil-rights leader's death also draw Dems

Apr 4, 08 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain apologized today for his 1983 Senate vote against a federal Martin Luther King holiday. Standing at the Memphis site where King was assassinated in 1968, McCain called his nay vote “a mistake,” the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports; McCain later voted for a state holiday in Arizona.... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • poverty • Martin Luther King Jr.

opinion

MLK Son:
We Need Cabinet Post
for Poverty

40 years later, much work remains, he says

Apr 4, 08 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - The son of Martin Luther King says the nation can best commemorate the 40th anniversary of his father's assassination by taking concrete action to fight poverty. In an essay in the  Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Martin Luther King III called on the presidential candidates to commit to creating a Cabinet position, one... More »

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poverty • racial inequality • Martin Luther King Jr. • Martin Luther King III • Office of Financial Empowerment

Record 28 Million Americans to Get Food Stamps

Slip into poverty a grim economic indicator

Mar 31, 08 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an economic indicator that paints a grim future for swaths of the US population, an all-time record 28 million Americans are expected to be close enough to poverty to receive $36 billion in food stamps in the coming fiscal year, reports the New York Times. There is a surge... More »

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layoffs • entitlement programs • recession • unemployment • Congressional Budget Office • poverty • gas prices • food prices • economy • food stamps • Economic Policy Institute

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