PUBLIC MARKS with tag poverty

Une étude confirme les avantages d'une intervention hâtive aux premiers signes de difficulté en lecture.

relatie tussen inkomensongelijkheid en armoede

no. of ultra poor (<50ct/day) rising evan though total no. of poor is decreasing

deel van serie rich menu for the poor. Argument to take political / power aspects more into account

lots of good tables / graphs and comparisons with rest of caribean / LA

overty Facts and Stats 1. Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day. 2. The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world's countries) is less than the wealth of the world's three richest people combined. 3. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. 4. Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen. 5. 51 percent of the world's 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations. 6. The wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation. 7. The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money. 8. 20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world's goods. 9. The top fifth of the world's people in the richest countries enjoy 82% of the expanding export trade and 68% of foreign direct investment — the bottom fifth, barely more than 1%. 10. In 1960, the 20% of the world's people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, 74 times as muc

In New York, there's more than just a digital divide. Dozens of Elderly citizens go to bed hungry each night. Poverty causes hunger and hunger causes poverty. Help mend the gap between the rich and poor by supporting the New York City Food Bank. These guys are doing it, so why aren't you? http://www.foodbanknyc.org/

Dramatic figures and cause for concern. This is in Blair's Britain!

full reports downloadable

Opinion piece on how the world's problems are never any more or less profound at any given time in history, simply different. Discusses how people of all generations take the myopic viewpoint that the world is at it's worst point while they are alive simply because they are there to experience it

Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.