Nigeria: poverty, Insurgency and the Way Forward, By Bolaji Akinyemi - AllAfrica.com
28 May 2012, 2:39 am
Just before the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, some time around October 2010, while discussing with Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, he disclosed, rather prophetically, that President Goodluck Jonathan would likely get the party's ...

Premier Wen urges more efforts in poverty alleviation (2) - People's Daily Online
27 May 2012, 7:22 pm
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (3rd L, front) talks with local villagers at the old house, built in 1957, of Wu Jiayu, an 88-year old villager, at the Lixin Village of Huayuan County in the Tujia-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Xiangxi, central China's Hunan ...

poverty advocates begin 2012 push - Politico.com
26 May 2012, 3:49 pm
President Barack Obama has been focusing his reelection campaign on appealing to the middle class — but many allies on the left, including civil rights activists and religious leaders, say it’s the poor that need more of his attention.

'The Other America' takes the veil off American poverty - Los Angeles Times
26 May 2012, 10:27 am
Michael Harrington's "The Other America: poverty in the United States" had been in print for about 20 years when I first read it in the early 1980s. I was a young journalist then, and I had found a musty paperback edition in a basement-level ...

Poor girls aren't condemned to pregnancy, poverty - CNN
24 May 2012, 5:10 pm
(CNN)-- "Why is the teen birth rate in the United States so high, and why does it matter?" Those questions are posed in the title of a new paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives getting a good deal of applause on the Internet. The answer ...

Caught in the cycle of poverty - Los Angeles Times
24 May 2012, 1:42 pm
After months searching for work and feeling increasingly discouraged, Natalie Cole caught a break — an offer of a part-time position at a Little Caesars Pizza shop in Compton. The manager scheduled her orientation and told her she had to pass a food ...

poverty tours: A learning experience or simply gawking? - CNN
23 May 2012, 5:22 am
Editor's note: Moni Basu, a reporter for CNN.com, was born in Kolkata, India and returns there every year. New Delhi (CNN)-- On a recent trip home to India, I heard a German man on my flight remark to another passenger that he'd taken his son on ...

poverty Increasing Among Retirees - Yahoo Finance
21 May 2012, 11:37 am
Growing numbers of older Americans are spending their retirement years in poverty, according to a recent Employee Benefit Research Institute study. The proportion of older people living below the poverty line has been growing steadily since 2005 ...

Nearly a quarter of N.J. residents lived in poverty in 2010, study shows - NJ.com
20 May 2012, 7:31 pm
TRENTON — New Jersey may be among the richest states in the nation, but a record number of Garden State residents lived in poverty during 2010, according to a report scheduled to be released today. Nearly a quarter of the state’s population ...

While Michigan's economy shows signs of life, our poverty level rises - MLive.com
17 May 2012, 6:41 am
One trend belies the notion that a rising economy lifts all boats: Michigan’s growing poverty rate. Michigan’s economy bottomed out near the end of 2009, and employment and incomes have been creeping upward ever since. But so has poverty.