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Cotton growers facing "neglect, abuse and poverty"
2015-04-22 12:01:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Growing cotton is failing to provide millions of farmers with a sustainable and profitable livelihood, according to a report from the Fairtrade Foundation.
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Poverty Awareness Week
2015-04-15 21:43:59| PortlandOnline
Today, Nick was pleased to speak to students at St. Marys Academy, as part of the schools Poverty Awareness Week.
Report: Indiana has more jobs, but poverty rate increases
2015-04-12 23:06:15| IT Services - Topix.net
A decline in good-paying manufacturing jobs in Indiana and growth of lower-wage service jobs has led to a 29 percent increase in people living in poverty in the state since the year before the Great Recession and a widening in the income gap between whites and some minorities, a report shows. "The recovery is uneven in who it affects," said Derek Thomas, senior analyst at the Indiana Institute for Working Families and author of the agency's 2015 report on the economic status of Indiana families.
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VIDEO: Efforts to tackle global poverty
2015-03-27 10:02:43| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Can global poverty ever be ended? The United Nations is expected to later this year adopt the World Bank's ambitious target of ending extreme poverty by 2030.
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Tackling disasters vital to end poverty: World Bank chief
2015-03-13 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In the past 30 years, the world has lost more than 2.5 million people and almost $4 trillion because of natural disasters, the president of the World Bank said on Friday as governments prepare to adopt a new global plan to reduce disaster risk. Speaking in Tokyo on his way to the northeastern city of Sendai, where a U.N. conference aims to finalize the plan, Jim Yong Kim said the 2010 earthquake in Haiti destroyed more than a decade of growth in the country, and in 2013, Typhoon Haiyan pushed...
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