I think the number of children living in poverty in the U.S. is about the same as in Britain. In the richest countries of the world, including the U.S. and Britain, it is immoral to have so many children living below the poverty line. In fact, I believe the child poverty stats in...
Let me try this out on you. I equate a head of household in an income challenged household <poverty or on cusp of poverty> in the same decision-making grouping as a small business owner or even someone like a president of a country –day in and day out every choice and decision is i...
This blog is of the life of Carol and Richard after retiring from Silicon Valley in the USA. We moved to India in 2007 to stay at the foot of the holy mountain, Arunachala. Then after eight amazing years, we moved to Mexico, where we now reside. We love our retired life, and I sh...
The Historical Household Budgets (HHB) project aims to rewrite the history of inequality and poverty over the last two centuries, and to make that history international. Existing accounts perch on a narrow evidentiary base: few countries, few indicators (often proxies), short time frames, poor co...
In April 2020 Save the Children launched Emergency Response grants to support families living in poverty and impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. These grants provide essential household items such as table and chairs, beds, pushchairs, supermarket vouchers...
All we see is war, corruption, poverty and greed, How’s that working for you? It doesn’t work for m Seeing my fellow human beings suffering, starving and dying All because we are worried that if we start defying, Those in control of money, government and health ...
Reddit Pocket EasterSpring flowerstrees blooming Changing Carpets From Winter to Spring March 12, 20163 Comments In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife…taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.” Mary B. Eddy,Miscellaneous Writings, 1896. ...
neglected, whose lives are going to be significantly impaired, unless programs are put in place to pull them out of poverty. And those programs are simply not being devised because of this sort of myth that, well, we are the only country in the world that doesn’t have poverty. What a...
On the websites Reddit and Quora, there were some people from around the United States who wrote about having a similar experience using the DMV eyesight optic test equipment. One person could only see the first three out of four characters in the Left Column, Center Column, and Right ...
poverty complicate matters even further, making amultipronged offensenecessary to fight food and healthcare inequality at a systemic level. Driven by longstanding underinvestment in rural healthcare infrastructure nationwide, it’s little wonder doctors, clinicians, and nurses don’t flock to these ...