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Fighting poverty with veggies
2013-10-17 19:19:58| PortlandOnline
Jennifer Anderson in the Portland Tribune, October 17, 2013
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VIDEO: Working families trapped in poverty
2013-10-17 16:22:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The government has been told that child poverty is now a problem for working families, rather than those described as "workless or work-shy".
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Work 'may be no way out of poverty'
2013-10-17 09:14:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Work no longer pays enough to provide a route out of poverty for millions of families, the government's social mobility tsar is to warn.
When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe
2013-10-17 02:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Wambui Karunyu, 72, and her seven-year-old grandson are the only surviving members of their immediate family. Karunyus husband and five children all succumbed to the hardships of living in the semi-arid area of lower Mukurweini district in central Kenya. In 2009, a drought struck parts of central and southeast Kenya, leaving 3.8 million people in need of food aid. Four years later, conditions in the area remain dire. According to the regional Drought Management Authority, while the upper parts...
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VIDEO: World Bank plan to end poverty
2013-10-07 12:20:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Extreme poverty is being described as "the defining moral issue of our time," by the group president of the World Bank.
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