‘Poverty, Hunger, Famine and Drought’ Archives
Poverty in the United States
Poverty in the United States U.S Census Bureau estimates that approximately 37.0 million individuals were in poverty in the United States in 2005. This figure represented 12.6% of the entire population. The highest rate was calculated in the first year of measurement, 1959, when an estimated 22.4% of the population fell below the poverty line. [...]
Underclass
Underclass A term introduced by Time magazine in 1977 which describes what some saw as a new class of poor people, not cursed simply with a lack of money, but with a whole host of social pathologies, from single parenthood, to drug addiction, to high rates of participation in crime, and low willingness to pursue legitimate work. The members of [...]
Famine
Famine Famine is a complex process of social breakdown involving acute poverty, disruption of the food consumption process, and the occurrence of hunger in its various forms. Although it is typically associated with sudden mass mortality due to starvation, this is not an essential feature; those who have experienced famine tend to characterize [...]
Food Insecurity
Food Insecurity Hunger takes a third form, known as food insecurity, which occurs when people are unable to reliably obtain a healthy and socially acceptable diet in socially acceptable ways. This understanding of hunger rests on the acknowledgment that food is not just a source of energy and nutrients and that the food consumption process [...]
Malnutrition
Malnutrition Hunger is a condition of involuntary food deprivation that takes a variety of forms, each having its own geography. The two most commonly recognized forms are undernutrition and malnutrition. Very basically, undernutrition occurs when a person is unable to consume enough calories to remain healthy and active on a continuing basis, [...]
War on Poverty
War on Poverty A far-reaching program of federal legislation developed in the mid-1960s by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration to reduce poverty. The program expanded educational opportunities to the poor on a scale never before seen in the United States, opening up preschool education to millions of economically and educationally deprived [...]
What Is Poverty?
What Is Poverty? Jo Goodwin Parker When George Henderson, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, was writing his 1971 book, America’s Other Children: Public Schools Outside Suburbia, he received the following essay in the mail. It was signed “Jo Goodwin Parker” and had been mailed from West Virginia. No further information was ever [...]
Famine warning
Ethiopia famine warning Summary: Ethiopia faces a famine much more severe than that in the 1980s, its prime minister has warned. He said that if the situation was a nightmare last time, it is now too horrible to think about. This report from Martin Plaut. The scale of the current Ethiopian drought is much larger than the 1980s. Millions [...]
Lack of micronutrients
Lack of micronutrients affecting millions Up to a third of the world's population don't meet their physical and intellectual potential because of a lack of vitamins and minerals according to a report published by UNICEF and the Micronutrient Initiative. This report from Ania Lichtarowicz. Ten years ago a lack of vitamins and minerals was [...]
Poverty
Poverty Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Why is this? Is it enough to blame poor people for their own predicament? Have they been lazy, made poor decisions, and been solely responsible for their plight? What about their government? Have they pursued policies that actually harm successful development? [...]
