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The teenagers didn't seem disrespectful -- just oblivious, standing in a cast bronze bread line, posing with statues of gaunt men waiting for food in the depths of America's Great Depression. Some towered a good head above the...
Sunday 22nd November, 11:52 AM JST WASHINGTON — Invoking the memory of Edward M Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager...
Published: Sunday | November 22, 2009 Clarke At a special meeting at People's National Party (PNP) headquarters in the mid-1980s, I awaited the arrival of the great doyen of the Third World Awakening, Julius Nyerere, with eager...
WHILE Recently released data from the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) show an upward swing in Jamaica's poverty line and a reduction in the number of people going hungry, a strong link is being made between missing...
A Comparison Of Senate, House Democratic Health Care Bills (AP) A comparison of the health care bills before Congress: The Senate Democratic bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act): WHO'S COVERED: About 94 percent of...
BANJUL, Nov 21 (IPS) - The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence...
PORT-LOUIS, Nov 21 (IPS) - "We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was...
The fact is that the CCHD does not give one dime to organizations involved in direct services to the poor, such as soup kitchens or homeless shelters. Instead, it grants money to radical community organizers more interested in...
Those items to the left, along with T-shirts and bumper stickers with the same slogan seem like more American civil religion, right? Remember all the “Prayer groups for the President” during Bush’s first term? Wrong. Psalm 109:...
The world economic crisis will make the population of Latin America's poor reach 189 million, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said Thursday. ECLAC on Thursday presented its report "Social...
