His jobs plan could keep 3m out of poverty next year, says Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution.
ECONOMIST: Shocking numbers, just as sacrifices are being demanded
According to U.S. Census figures, more than 46 million Americans were living in poverty last year, an 18-year high.
FORBES: Government Cheese Helps Sprint Juice Subscriber Numbers, Move Stock To $4.23
In fact, nearly 30 percent of Latinos avoid poverty each year because of the monthly Social Security check they receive.
WHITEHOUSE: Renewing the American Dream: Hispanics' Share of the American Dream | The White House
The World Bank expects some 53m people to fall below the level of extreme poverty this year (see article).
The estimates for 2010 are partial but, says the bank, they show global poverty that year was half its 1990 level.
With recent news revealing that 1 in 7 Americans were living in poverty last year, new taxes that remove value from the economy seem preposterous.
FORBES: U.S. Oil Drillers Prepare For Punch In The Gut From Obama
Yet, considering a population of 1.4 billion, if 1% of them were moving out of poverty each year it would be the equivalent of the population of Russia all of a sudden having a little extra cash to spend at the supermarket.
FORBES: Two Funds to Profit Off China's Growing Middle Class
During our poverty tour last year, we met countless people caught in vicious cycles of looking for nonexistent jobs because their unemployment benefits were expiring or had run out, scraping change together for gas to go on interviews that may or may not pan out, and having to swap food stamps for cash to keep the lights or gas on in the house.
Local authority housing had the highest proportion of households in fuel poverty in October last year, compared with other types of housing, at one in three.
It said basic energy-efficiency measures such as loft and cavity insulation, double glazing and new boilers had prevented up to 35, 000 Scottish households from falling into fuel poverty over the past year.
According to the film, more than 1m students in China leave school each year due to poverty.
It will take 6.57 billion diapers to keep every American baby living in poverty clean and dry this year.
Since then deforestation, a three-year drought and poverty have formed a vicious circle.
ECONOMIST: Missing trees reflect the country's woeful recent history
Today's India boasts a thriving, entrepreneurial and globalised economy, with a dynamic and creative business culture, dealing with the world on its own terms and pulling over 10 million people a year above the poverty line.
She was abandoned as a newborn at a hospital in Malaysia (to this day she has no clue as to who her biological parents are) and adopted by a poverty-stricken 63-year-old widow who was a habitual gambler.
The budget is drawn up by the European Commission , who have set aside 63.8bn for job creation projects, such as the 10.5m that is due to be spent funding the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
Cholera, tuberculosis and other diseases of poverty claim thousands of lives each year.
The President, Flight Lieutenant Gerry Rawlings, is seriously talking about eliminating absolute poverty in his country by the year 2020.
The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty suffered by the poorest on the planet four times over, Oxfam has said.
BBC: Oxfam seeks 'new deal' on inequality from world leaders
The First Minister had previously set out the Assembly's legislative programme for the year, making child poverty, housing, health, education, the environment and the Welsh language priorities for the government.
Now first, and sort of laying the foundation for that discussion, you know, we had over a million people added to the poverty rolls just in the past year, according to the Census Bureau.
Its poverty headcount rose at every three-year interval between 1981 and 2005, the only continent where this happened.
According to the World Bank, 28% of Indians live in poverty in 2000, the most recent year for data.
Since humans need about 3, 000 kWhr per person per year just to have what we consider a decent life, this means the world must produce over 30 trillion kWhrs per year just to eradicate global poverty, war and terrorism.
The Web magazine RecessionWire (subtitle: "The Upside of the Downturn"), whose founders were themselves laid off from other companies, has nursed this idea of reinvention over the last half year, with stories on poverty-provoked spiritual awakenings and musings on next steps.
During the course of this recession, poverty has gone up to a 15-year high.
WHITEHOUSE: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Phoenix Awards Dinner | The White House
If all poor heads of families worked at least 2, 000 hours a year, she reckons, the poverty rate would be cut in half.
This poverty and oppression drives thousands of Saharans every year to risk their lives in the trackless desert, hoping to find a better life in another country.
Late last year, he introduced the Global Poverty Act (S.2433).
"But this announcement comes after more price rises last year, record numbers in fuel poverty and not long after the energy regulator warned of higher still energy prices for the foreseeable future, " she added.
应用推荐