poverty

Millions of senior citizens can’t afford food

Senior citizens are struggling to afford enough food in the U.S. and the problem appears to be getting worse.

An alarming 1 in 12 seniors aged 60 and older — 5.5 million or 7.7% of the senior population — didn’t have enough food in 2017, the latest year for which data was available, according to a

2019-05-17T06:29:52-05:00Tags: |

FPWAs Ending the Poverty to Prison Pipeline Report 2019

A new report by FPWA details the criminalization of poverty. The health and human services sector can disrupt the “poverty to prison pipeline” – but only by becoming aware of the key role they can play in battling poverty, according to the report.

“Although the majority of health and human services providers do not currently

2019-04-22T10:51:08-05:00Tags: , |

Oxfam America leader talks poverty and inequality

In a talk aptly named “Inequality and the Injustice of Poverty” on Tuesday night, President and CEO of Oxfam America Abigail Maxman challenged her audience of around three dozen students and professors in Kresge Auditorium to consider the challenge that these two forces pose today.

“The gap between the richest and the poorest has reached levels

2019-04-19T07:33:05-05:00Tags: |

Low-income neighborhoods more vulnerable to flooding

Portland experiences both extreme heat in the summer months and frequent nuisance flooding in the winter and spring, and that’s only expected to worsen with climate change. A new Portland State University study found the potential for flooding and extreme heat is most acute in East Portland’s low-income neighborhoods that have fewer green spaces and

2019-03-27T08:27:08-05:00Tags: |

A third of homeless deaths are from treatable conditions

A third of deaths among homeless people are caused by treatable conditions such as tuberculosis and gastric ulcers, which can improve with the right care, a UCL study has found.

Academics led by Dr Robert Aldridge (UCL Institute of Health Informatics) analysed nearly 4,000 in-depth medical records for 600 people who died in English hospitals between

2019-03-26T07:56:01-05:00Tags: |

Should landlords have to share what’s been bugging them?

Pretty much anybody who’s been apartment hunting knows what they’re looking for in a place to live, and bedbugs usually aren’t on that list.

So it might seem like a crazy idea for landlords to tell potential tenants about past bedbug infestations, but Alison Hill believes it will pay off in the long run.

A John Harvard

2019-03-13T10:52:05-05:00Tags: |

Tackling poverty, one person at a time

When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the United States. Now, almost four years later, she’s travelled across Asia, spending weeks at a time in India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. But the reason for all this travel hasn’t been sightseeing — she’s been working to reduce poverty, one

2019-03-13T10:35:34-05:00Tags: |

Industrial projects help 210,000 shake off poverty in Tibet

A total of 210,000 people have been lifted out of poverty through industrial development projects in the past three years in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.

The regional poverty alleviation and development office said from 2016 to 2018 Tibet has poured nearly 29 billion yuan (US$4.3 billion) to develop 2,263 industrial projects, aiming to help impoverished

2019-03-12T11:38:12-05:00Tags: |

Rise in health spending pushing 100 million people to extreme poverty: WHO

The report “2018 Global Health Expenditure” revealed that in low and middle-income countries health spending is growing on average 6 per cent annually compared with 4 per cent in high-income countries.

While governments provide an average of 51 per cent of a country’s health spending, more than 35 per cent of health spending per country comes

2019-02-26T07:52:59-06:00Tags: |

Children who eat lunch score 18% higher in reading tests

The powerful connection between nutrition and education has been revealed by new research from ESMT Berlin. Primary school children who attended a public free lunch program over an extended period were shown to have significantly better learning outcomes. According to the study, children with up to five years of midday meals had reading test scores

2019-02-22T07:28:03-06:00Tags: |

A new paradox for Mr. Disruption

In “The Prosperity Paradox,” Harvard professor Clay Christensen and two co-authors seek to unravel why, despite decades of aid amounting to a cumulative $4.3 trillion, many poor nations remain impoverished. In terms of income per capita, at least 20 of these countries are worse off after the assistance.
Quick take: What wealthy countries are

2019-01-12T03:49:21-06:00Tags: |

We’re making real progress against cancer. But you may not know it if you’re poor.

In the past, cancer was seen as a death sentence. These days, it’s increasingly a survivable or chronic disease. But that’s especially true if you’re rich.

That’s the takeaway from the latest big reports on cancer deaths in the US and globally. On the one hand, screening to detect the disease early has become more

Three Community Feedback Tools for Impact Investors

Successful businesses continuously update their knowledge of what customers want.  Walmart collects more than 2.5 million gigabytes of customer data per hour and Yelp users post 26,380 reviews per minute. So why do many impact investors, who seek social, environmental, and economic returns on patient timelines, park customer insight at the door when they want to achieve multiple

Will it be another deadly winter for those in fuel poverty?

As nights draw in and temperatures plummet, for many households across the UK the start of the winter period brings with it some very difficult decisions. The “heat or eat” dilemma represents a devastating choice for vulnerable customers, and with a series of rising energy prices across the market it is likely that this winter

2018-12-19T20:15:33-06:00Tags: |

How Poverty Is Causing Deforestation Across Africa

Gitika Bhardwaj speaks to campaigner Obed Owusu-Addai about why solving the problem of deforestation across Africa requires tackling one of its biggest causes – poverty.

Up to 58,000 square miles of forests are being lost to deforestation every year, contributing to climate change and the loss of habitats for millions of species. Can you tell us

Being fair: the benefits of early childhood education

Children from low-income families who got intensive education early in life treat others with high levels of fairness in midlife, more than 40 years later, even when being fair comes at a high personal cost, according to a new study published today in Nature Communications.

The 78 people in the study were followed as part of

2018-11-30T06:05:51-06:00Tags: |

Platform helps farmers out of extreme poverty

More than half of the world’s poorest people live on small farms in rural areas of developing countries, accounting for over 2 billion people living on around two dollars a day.

Many of the hardships of smallholder farmers are the result of a long list of systemic issues spanning the agricultural supply chain. First, farmers cannot

2018-11-18T10:17:51-06:00Tags: |
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