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Living in a box

By Diana13 351 days ago from http://www.134u.com

In our daily “gold rush” and our daily duties fulfilling, we often forget about less fortunate people around us. They are all over the place and we meet them every day. Every so often we drop them some bucks and rush away to our routine work.

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Improve your vocabulary and help those in hunger at the same time | TechLife

By newopps 382 days ago from http://horeki.com

While we enjoy our food everyday, do you ever think of those in hunger somewhere else in the world?

As what stated in Poverty.com, there are about 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related cases, according to the United Nations; and children are those who die most often.

Can we do something to help them?
Definitely YES!

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Who Will Fight for the Middle Class? (Everyday Citizen)

By EverydayCitizen 319 days ago from http://www.everydaycitizen.com

On the Democratic side, John Edwards, although never the front-runner, has been driving his party’s policy agenda. He’s done it again on economic stimulus: last month, before the economic consensus turned as negative as it now has, he proposed a stimulus package including aid to unemployed workers, aid to cash-strapped state and local governm

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And the poor shall forevermore be downtrodden

By anjamerret 209 days ago from http://anjamerret.com

Question: what is it about governments, big business, institutions, non-profits, charities etc that they want to keep the poor poor? Alright, as generalisations go, this one is one of my better ones. Two articles that made me think this appeared in the media today.

e first one was in the Independent and discussed the farming

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Michaelann Land: Not everyone can walk their way out of hunger

By michaelannb 189 days ago from http://michaelannland.blogspot.com

If you were hungry, would you try to walk out of hunger at 250 calories a mile, knowing you might be shot as you reach the border? Biofuels, the fuel shortage and increased demand are taking their share of blame for the world food crisis, but there's more than one way to wind up hungry. Solutions are possible, but the longer

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Michaelann Land: 10 Million Millionaires equals 2.8 billion in poverty

By michaelannb 160 days ago from http://michaelannland.blogspot.com

t's an old joke poor people tell ourselves:
Why are people poor?
Because we don't have money! Do away with sociological and psychological reasons for poverty; stop confusing the symptoms with not the causes, and in the end, it all boils down to money, which is about distribution of wealth, which is about control of resource

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