Raising the minimum wage to a living wage begins the cycle of lifting single mothers out of poverty, according to a policy report released by the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis (IUPRA) at The University of Texas at Austin. The U.S. census shows more Americans - 46.2 million...
When we talk, as a nation, about health care, there are a lot of important aspects we must address. Women's health care, for one, is vital to the country's overall wellness. So is prevention and care of obesity-related illness. But a subject that gets discussed less frequency and with less...
Collective violence attributed to organized crime and poverty are adversely affecting the mental health of children living near the Texas-Mexico border, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans. In the study...
politics, science, ethnicity, gen? What role have factors such as fear, social status, religion, race, poverty, politics, science, ethnicity, gender etc. played in response to disease?
drive big SUVs? Christians/Protestant pastors have giant mansions, drive huge SUV's while Buddhist monks go out begging for food as daily practice. Do you find that odd?
conservatives giving up arguing? Where have US conservatives who unabatedly defend thieving, slaving US richclass gone?
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from being tall or will they still? be tall but weak and skinny?
Some African tribes are etremely tall yet they live in poverty.Will the person with tall genese still become tall at adulthood?
When they are so into the "thug culture"? All I hear when I listen to black music is "Bit*h" "****a" "Ho" "fu*k", and its all about being violent and rude, and **** women and leave them when they get pregnant. How can they keep blaming "racism" and white people for the fact that most of them are...
me interesting fact? please this is needed really urgent for my project i need things that are cheap and that poor people would eat . Give me facts about how much people are experiencing poverty , how much are hungry how much people starve and die each day . Get as much facts as possible ...
Instead of complaining, why don't they get off welfare and do something productive that will enhance their standards of living. Do they tend to be more lazier compared to other minorities? How come statistically speaking they have a lower average income among minorities in the USA? They...
A new report on Poverty and HIV by NAT (National AIDS Trust) and Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) reveals at least one in six people diagnosed with HIV in the UK experienced severe poverty between 2006 and 2009. Furthermore, the level of poverty experienced by people living with HIV has...
The CPA calls upon the Government to live up to the commitments made less than one year ago today to establish a plan to eliminate poverty in Canada. Yesterday, the Government of Canada listed its accomplishments in reducing poverty in Canada yet did not directly comment on a single...
Paper Identifies How African Countries Adapt Food Production To Deal With Climate Change A new discussion paper, led by a researcher from the University of Nairobi and produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute, examines how 10 sub-Saharan African countries have adapted...
...world is much worse? I have met countless number of slum dwellers in India that would do anything to live even the life of a homeless man in the United States..when I told them that in the US, there are homeless shelters and soup kitchens every saturday for the poor to eat, the slum dwellers...
Disabled children in the UK are more likely to likely to live with low-income, deprivation, debt and poor housing. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Pediatrics found that disabled children, particularly those from black/minority ethnic/mixed parentage groups and lone-parent...
Agriculture ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean came together Tuesday to discuss strategies aimed at eradicating hunger and poverty by 2025, Xinhua/People's Daily Online reports. "The ministers debated common strategies to fight hunger and poverty, though the situation in each country...
ECOWAS, UEMOA Release Strategy For Reducing Poverty In W. Africa The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA) on Monday released a 204-page strategy paper aimed at reducing poverty in West Africa, the Guardian reports...
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