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How the middle class is responsible for perpetuating poverty
It would take four times the earth�s resources to support the average American living standards for the world. The poor get poorer as more of us aspire for that good life. #HowThisWorks #India #Poverty #Europe #Communism #MIddle Class #social reforms
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Why the Indian media gives a damn about poverty
In that sense the poverty line of India is cruel. It is merciless and doesn't allow the majority of Indians any money for shelter or access to education or healthcare or sanitation or anything else that civilised nations would consider as essential as food. #ThatsJustWrong #GDP #economic reforms #foreign funds #Poverty line
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Share My Dabba: How Mumbai dabbawallahs will help feed street kids
The Share My Dabba initiative will attempt to bridge a bit of the gap between the haves and the have-nots of Mumbai. #HowThisWorks #India #Poverty #Mumbai #Malnutrition #Share My Dabba #dabbawallahs #The Dabbawallah Foundation
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Why the UPAs cash transfer scheme will boost poverty
The government in election mode is hurrying what it believes are popular reforms. But by offering to transfer cash to 10 crore families while withdrawing subsidies that support double that population, the UPA may end up scoring a self-goal. #HowThisWorks #UPA #Poverty #Aadhaar #Cash transfers
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WBUR | 90.9 FMIn Metro Boston, A Spike In Suburban Poverty
BOSTON — The word “suburb” conjures images of cul-de-sacs and late-model sedans. The tome notes that there are now more poor people in the suburbs (16.4 million) than in American cities (13.4 million). Driving the trend: a 64 percent jump between 2000 an #
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Pittsburgh Business TimesPenn Hills highlights suburban poverty paradox in new book
Poverty, long thought to be an issue only in America's urban and rural areas, has found a new home: the suburbs. According to "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America," a book released Monday by the Brookings Institution, in the last decade, poverty has #Brookings Institution #Census Bureau
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The Washington PostPoverty is now growing twice as fast in the suburbs as in cities
At some point during the 2000s, America reached an unexpected milestone: There are now more poor people living in the suburbs than in the inner cities. That stat comes from a big new Brookings Institution book by Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube, Confr #Brookings Institution #Washington Post Company #Joel Kotkin