Scholars created the Economic Security Index and have unveiled their report today at a forum. Jonathan Cohn blogs about it today at The New Republic.
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New Economic Indicator to Complement Poverty Index
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on July 22nd, 2010
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Comments OffUN asks for 9.5 billion dollars for humanitarian aid
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on July 15th, 2010
The outgoing coordinator for the United Nations humanitarian efforts says they need 9.5 billion dollars this year. John Holmes says the money is needed to help 53 million needy people in 34 different countries.
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: 1 Billion Dollars, Aid Budgets, British High Commissioner, Briton, Devastating Earthquake, Donors, Economic Crises, Food Emergencies, Google, Humanitarian Affairs, Humanitarian Aid, Humanitarian Efforts, international aid, John Holmes, Last November, Member Nations, Port Au Prince, Recession, Sahel Region, Shortfall, Valerie Comments OffNumber of high poverty schools in US increases
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on May 28th, 2010
A new study tells us that there has been an increase in the U.S. school districts that can be called “high-poverty” districts.
Posted in World News Tags: Armario, Boston Globe, Department Of Education, Diploma, Education Report, Face, Globe Writer, Grade Students, Graduate School, Graduates, High Poverty Schools, High Schools, Lunch Program, Poverty Rate, Price School Lunches, Recession, Rose, School Districts, Three Quarters, Us Department Of Education, World News Comments OffOECD says that international aid is “off-track”
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on April 27th, 2010
From IRIN, the OECD weighs in on international aid and the gap between aid pledges and commitments.
Members of the Organisation for Economic Coooperation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) gave US$121.5 billion in bilateral aid in 2009, reaching a historic high, but the gap between commitments and promises made in 2005 is widening, says the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
In 2005 DAC donors collectively promised to commit 0.56 percent of gross national income to aid by 2010, but reached just 0.31 percent in 2009, according to OECD’s 2010 aid report issued on 23 April.
“Though aid commitments have continued to increase, the rate of increase has dropped off in the past few years…making donors increasingly off-track,” ODI research fellow Alison Evans told IRIN.
DAC donors gave $27 billion to Africa in 2009, an increase of 3 percent on 2008, but this is still less than half of the extra aid they promised at Gleneagles in 2005, said Evans.
Norway, France, the UK, Korea, Finland, Belgium and Switzerland all increased their aid commitments, while Japan, Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal, among others, reduced theirs.
“For EU [European Union] members these DAC figures are particularly sobering,” Evans told IRIN.
Posted in World News Tags: Aid Pledges, Alison Evans, Bilateral Aid, Commitments, Dac, Development Assistance Committee, Donors, European Union, European Union Members, France Germany, Gap, Gleneagles, Good Times, Gross National Income, Netherlands Norway, Odi, Oecd, Recession, Research Fellow, Target, World News Comments OffVideo: Memphis Tennessee becomes US hunger capital
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on March 29th, 2010
The city of Memphis, Tennessee has the poor distinction of being the hungriest part of America. A new Gallup survey found that a greater percentage of those in Memphis can not afford to buy food than anywhere else in the US.
First, from McClatchy Newspapers this video tells the story of a couple of Memphis residents who have fallen on hard times.
Now some of the facts and factors behind Memphis’ new distinction from McClatchy Newspapers reporter Shashank Bengali.
As more and more Americans struggle to pay their bills, a recent survey co-sponsored by Gallup found that 26 percent of people in greater Memphis couldn’t afford to buy the food their families needed at some point over the previous 12 months, the highest rate in the nation.
The nationwide recession has compounded the region’s economic woes, which experts say stem from the steady decline of family farms, a shortage of skilled workers and few major employers.
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