Home » Posts tagged 'poverty' (Page 2)
Tag Archives: poverty
37 Facts About How Cruel This Economy Has Been To Millions Of Desperate American Families
37 Facts About How Cruel This Economy Has Been To Millions Of Desperate American Families Have you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because you didn’t know how your family was possibly going to make it through the next month financially? Have you ever felt the desperation of […]
Rumors of New Bank Bailouts in Spain
Rumors of New Bank Bailouts in Spain Just when the government touts its miracle economy! Spain will hold do-or-die general elections on December 20. The Rajoy government hopes that recent improvements in economic performance will be enough to cast its gargantuan political scandals to the back of voters’ minds. The economy is firing on all cylinders, […]
2.1 Million Greeks Face Blackout As Public Power Company Unpaid Bills Soars
2.1 Million Greeks Face Blackout As Public Power Company Unpaid Bills Soars Greece’s Public Power Company is angry. The amount of unpaid bills by its customers has reached the astronomic EUR 2.5 billion. The PPC is so angry that it plans to cut the power to those without outstanding debts as soon as possible – a whopping […]
21 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind
21 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind What you are about to see is more evidence that the growth of poverty in the United States is wildly out of control. It turns out that there is a tremendous amount of suffering in “the wealthiest nation on the […]
‘Developed’ nations now $50 TRILLION in debt; literally, figuratively bankrupt for infrastructure, public services
‘Developed’ nations now $50 TRILLION in debt; literally, figuratively bankrupt for infrastructure, public services 4-minute video: Ready to rise from your economic slavery? I continue to factually assert that Benjamin Franklin already “discovered” government can operate without taxes, these superior mechanics were considered so important by Thomas Edison and Henry Ford that they dedicated their 1921 summer vacation […]
Leaving Our Children Nothing
Leaving Our Children Nothing Our generation has a unique opportunity. If we set our minds to it, we could be the first in human history to leave our children nothing: no greenhouse-gas emissions, no poverty, and no biodiversity loss. That is the course that world leaders set when they met at the United Nations in […]
Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns
Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns An astonishing 720 million people around the world face falling back into extreme poverty unless we tackle climate change immediately, warns a new report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The report was published as world leaders gathered this week at […]
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade Anti-desertification sand fences in Morocco. (Anderson Sady / CC BY-SA 3.0) Fifty million refugees fleeing hunger and poverty could be created in the next decade unless the world’s land degradation crisis is addressed, according to a new U.N.-backed study. The report, titled “The Value of Land,” estimates that […]
Does Capitalism Cause Poverty?
Does Capitalism Cause Poverty? Capitalism gets blamed for many things nowadays: poverty, inequality, unemployment, even global warming. As Pope Francis said in a recent speech in Bolivia: “This system is by now intolerable: farm workers find it intolerable, laborers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable. The earth itself – our sister, Mother […]
46 million Americans go to food banks, and long lines for dwindling food supplies begin at 6:30 AM
46 million Americans go to food banks, and long lines for dwindling food supplies begin at 6:30 AM Those that run food banks all over America say that demand for their services just continues to explode. It always amazes me that there are still people out there that insist that an “economic collapse” is not […]
Post-Development Discourse: Lessons for the Degrowth Movement (Part 1)
Post-Development Discourse: Lessons for the Degrowth Movement (Part 1) Is degrowth only conceivable in the context of “oversaturated” industrial societies while the global “South” remains dependent on growth? In two installments, this article questions such assumptions. In this first part it introduces positions critical of development which refuse to adopt the Western model of prosperity; […]
12 Ways The Economy Is Already In Worse Shape Than It Was During The Depths Of The Last Recession
12 Ways The Economy Is Already In Worse Shape Than It Was During The Depths Of The Last Recession Did you know that the percentage of children in the United States that are living in poverty is actually significantly higher than it was back in 2008? When I write about an “economic collapse”, most people […]
Burning down the house
Burning down the house Today is World Population Day (July 11) Picture the street where you live. Now imagine that a building in your neighborhood bursts into flame and burns to the ground. Day after day, the calamity is repeated. With safety and livelihoods at risk, people begin to argue about the best way […]
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street Imperialism and the Control of Agriculture In October of last year, World Food Day celebrated ‘Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth’. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s website, the family farming theme was chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder […]
