Top Hunger News: Kick Out World Cup Poverty
International
Film: Kick Out World Cup Poverty! Host of the 2010 World Cup, South
Africa has spent $4.1 billion on tournament preparations. But the plight
of the country's poor has grown worse in the lead-up to the World Cup.
[War on Want]
The Hurricane of Poverty. Guatemala: The row of cardboard, tin and wooden shacks lining the banks of the Montagua River stand in an act of defiance by those who have been repeatedly warned of the need to move elsewhere… [Granma Internacional]
Domestic
Nearly 1 in 3 Mississippi Households Struggling. Nearly a third of
Mississippi households aren't earning enough to pay for their own basic
needs, such as housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and
state and federal taxes... [AP]
Climate Change/Environment
Endangering Pakistan’s Environment. [T]he negative impact of climate
change is proportionally linked to levels of poverty in Pakistan.
[Dawn.com]
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Posted by Bread on June 12, 2010 in Global Hunger / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
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