Spending on food and energy is 44.1% of after-tax income for households in the lowest 20 percent of the income distribution
Uninsured children by poverty status, age, race and Hispanic origin
In 2007, 8.1 million children under 18 years old were without health insurance. Children in poverty and Hispanic children were more likely to be uninsured.
In the United States, 21.9 percent of all children are in poverty, a poverty rate second only to that of Mexico’s (among rich nations).
Thanks to this financial assistance, one-sixth of the world’s corn supply is burned in American cars. That is enough corn to feed 350 million people for an entire year.
Despite the strides made recently against malnutrition, millions more people will be undernourished than would have been the case in the absence of official support for biofuels.
The price of a slave has collapsed to a historic low over the past two hundred years. Back in the 1800s slaves cost $40,000, adjusted to today’s prices. The average price for a slave today, however, is just $90.
Most Americans couldn’t care less about the harm their subsidies inflicts on the Third World. Respondents were given these alternatives:
A. Rather than giving poor countries foreign aid, it is better to let them export what they can produce. For many poor countries agricultural products are one of the few things they can export. We should not undercut them by flooding the world market with cheap subsidized farm products.
B. Farmers in poor countries work for much lower returns than American farmers. Without government subsidies, American farmers won’t be able to compete and a lot of people working on farms will end up unemployed.
38% preferred A; 53% preferred B.
If the Indigenous Australian population was a country, its life expectancy would rank 178th in the world (compared to Australia’s ranking of 7th), between Cambodia and Botswana.
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Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger: Towards a coherent policy agenda
Both in rich countries and poor, a staggering 30-50% of all food produced rots away uneaten.
The World Bank’s food price index increased by 15% between October 2010 and January 2011 and is only 3% below its 2008 peak. Estimates of those who fall into, and move out of, poverty as a result of price rises since June 2010 show there is a net increase in extreme poverty of about 44 million people in low- and middle-income countries.
In the ACT, more than three quarters of adults and unaccompanied children were turned away from homeless shelters.
American schools are more segregated by race and class today than they were on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, 43 years ago. The average white child in America attends a school that is 77 percent white, and where just 32 percent of the student body lives in poverty. The average black child attends a school that is 59 percent poor but only 29 percent white. The typical Latino kid is similarly segregated; his school is 57 percent poor and 27 percent white.
Overall, a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino.
On MLK Day, some thoughts on segregated schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama
And life inside these [Rio de Janeiro] slums is difficult. Complexo do Alemao ranks lower than the African country of Gabon on the United Nations Human Development Index, a world survey of living standards that measures factors like access to education and health care. By comparison, the Development Index scores of upscale Rio neighborhoods like Gavea and Leblon are higher than Norway, the world’s top-ranked country.
South Koreans produced more than four-million tons of food waste last year, about 100,000 tons more than the basic food available to North Koreans.
Although the position of young black men in the city’s labor force was already tenuous before the recession, it was significantly impacted during the recession; this demographic group’s unemployment rate increased by 11 percentage points, reaching nearly 34 percent during the period January 2009 through June 2010—the highest of all demographic groups.
In addition, the employment-population ratio for young black men decreased to 25 percent in 2009–2010, meaning that only one in four young black men had a job in the city during the period January 2009 through June 2010.
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