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from The Times Online The Prime Minister has invited companies to find ways of meeting goals to provide health and education to impoverished children. David Charter in Davos Business leaders were today challenged by Gordon Brown to join a new movement with politicians and aid agencies to prevent international anti-poverty targets...
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Jan 29, 2008
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from PR Newswire WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rev. David Beckmann, President of Bread for the World, issued the following statement in response to the State of the Union address delivered tonight by President George W. Bush: "With turmoil in our nation's housing and financial markets, the President took the opportunity...
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Jan 29, 2008
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from The Tyron Daily Bulletin Chris Dailey Statistics suggest Polk County should have relatively few students in families living in poverty. In 2005, Polk County had the ninth highest per capita income in the state, according to the Center for Local Innovation. But those numbers can be misleading. Despite having a...
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Jan 29, 2008
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from The Inquirer By Ven S. Labro Visayas Bureau TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines -- The lack of counterpart fund has prevented some of the poorest Eastern Visayas towns from availing of grants for anti-poverty projects. The Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) is a World Bank-assisted project...
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Jan 29, 2008
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from NST Online The Ninth Malaysia Plan, whose mid-term review will be conducted in March, has already shown positive results, the Prime Minister said today. Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the third national mission to eradicate poverty and bridge socio-economic divides had reduced poverty from 5.7 per cent in 2004...
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Jan 28, 2008
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from The Birmingham News City's rate near rural Black Belt JEFF HANSEN News staff writer Childhood poverty estimates released this month show a sharp divide for metro Birmingham students. School-age children in Bessemer, Birmingham and Tarrant had poverty rates approaching the levels of Alabama's impoverished rural Black Belt, according to the...
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Jan 28, 2008
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from The Chicago Tribune By DAVID PITT DES MOINES, Iowa The number of households on food stamps more than doubled since 2000 as did the amount of money spent on the federally funded food assistance program, state officials said. In 2000 the average number of households each month on food stamps...
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