The Globalization of Poverty: Deconstructing the New World Order. In these unprecedented economic times, the world is experiencing as a whole what most of the non-industrialized world has experienced over the past several decades. For a nuanced examination of the intricacies of the global political-economic landscape and the power players within it, pick up your copy of: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky Michel Chossudovsky takes the reader through an examination of how the World Bank and IMF have been the greatest purveyors of poverty around the world, despite their rhetorical claims to the opposite.
These institutions, representing the powerful Western nations and the financial interests that dominate them, spread social apartheid around the world, exploiting both the people and the resources of the vast majority of the world’s population. Global Research Price: US $18.00 (List price: US $27.95, Canada C$34.95)CLICK TO BUY Ordering from Canada or the US? Synopsis In this expanded edition of Prof. War on Poverty. (image by Global Research Report) Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson spoke before Congress and declared a War on Poverty. Out of that speech came a series of programs that transformed America and made life better for millions of our fellow citizens. Out of that speech came Medicare, a government health insurance program for senior citizens -- which is now one of the most popular and important federal programs in existence. Through Medicare, Americans are guaranteed health care when they age -- when they need it the most.
What an extraordinary impact this has had for our country! Out of that speech came Medicaid, which provides health care to some 72 million low-income people and their kids. Out of that speech and the war on poverty came food stamps -- a concept which said that nobody -- no man, woman or child in the United States -- should go hungry. These are just some of the advances made under the war on poverty initiated by President Lyndon B. Reference > Quotations: Poverty. Lonely Progressive Looking for Action? Find Your Mojo Here! Here at Opednews, we're redoubling our commitment to envisioning and fighting for big change, not just traffic bumps that slow down the corporatist duopoly fueled by billionaire sociopaths.
We're going to call out the limp liberal obamatrons who accept Obama's lousy deals and defend him with the same tired excuses. We're going to call for Obama and the Democrats to man up and get tough and put out a vision of a future that does not include a slide into corporate control and enablement. We can't do it alone. We need donors to help support our work. And we can definitely use volunteers -- for editing, posting articles, recruiting new writers, covering breaking stories, actions, protests, conferences, doing media, fund-raising. Click here to volunteer thanks, rob kall. The War on Poverty is Our Moral Challenge Now. Source: Huffington Post (image by Franco Folini/Flickr) "Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity," said Nelson Mandela, "it is an act of justice. " When the War on Poverty began a half-century ago, it was widely seen as the moral obligation of a wealthy nation.
President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in his first State of the Union message, 50 years ago. That speech was delivered on January 8, 1964, to a Congress and a nation still grieving the assassination of a young and vibrant President. "Let us carry forward the plans and programs of John Fitzgerald Kennedy," said Johnson, "not because of our sorrow or sympathy, but because they are right. " Johnson knew that some of his colleagues might pay a price for their political courage on this issue.
Some sacrifices are worth the price. He was right. That's not to say that the War on Poverty has been a failure. The War on Poverty isn't an isolated struggle. Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Printing: Class Warfare Today, and How the Working Class Has Been Robbed Over the Past Half Century. December 21, 2013 By Richard Clark As the financial industry extracts ever more wealth from society, the working class has not been properly compensated for its rising productivity. As a result, our median inflation-adjusted household wealth has dropped from $73K to $57K in a little over 25 yrs. We've lost another 5% of our wealth just since the recession. Meanwhile, the poverty rate (among the poorest 1/2 of those beneath the poverty line) keeps worsening.
In the late 1960s, a full-time job at minimum wage could almost lift a family of four above the poverty line. Likewise with the stingy payments of Aid to Families with Dependent Children: The value of such payments (between 1974 and 1995, when Clinton abolished the program) went down by 60%, in purchasing power. As to the question, "can the minimum wage be raised without causing wholesale layoffs," that has not really been controversial for many years. Three Ways the Super-Rich Suck Wealth Out of the Rest of Us 1. 2. 3. Link. Printing: Economic Opportunity Is Lowest In the Former Slave States. December 20, 2013 By Eric Zuesse It used to be the slaves, but now it's the poor.
Class-Rigidity Is Extreme In the Republican Bible-Belt Heartland, The First Geographic Study of Class-Rigidity in the U.S. Finds. Class-Rigidity Is Extreme In the Republican Bible-Belt Heartland, The First Geographic Study of Class-Rigidity in the U.S. Finds. The website Equality-Of-Opportunity.org was established this year by four leading economists from Harvard and Berkeley, and it now headlines their major findings, "Mobility in the 100 Largest Commuting Zones. " In other words: virtually all of this nation's class-rigidity still remains in the U.S. Explaining this would produce controversy, and unfortunately the researchers don't even try. With the advent of Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his "New Deal" reforms and regulations during the Great Depression, and his starting of the Social Security system, this aristocratic hostility towards the Democratic Party intensified even more.
Poverty in the United States. In November 2012 the U.S. Census Bureau said more than 16% of the population lived in poverty, including almost 20% of American children,[7] up from 14.3% (approximately 43.6 million) in 2009 and to its highest level since 1993. In 2008, 13.2% (39.8 million) Americans lived in poverty.[8] Starting in the 1980s, relative poverty rates have consistently exceeded those of other wealthy nations.[9] California has a poverty rate of 23.5%, the highest of any state in the country.[10] In 2009 the number of people who were in poverty was approaching 1960s levels that led to the national War on Poverty.[11] In 2011 extreme poverty in the United States, meaning households living on less than $2 per day before government benefits, was double 1996 levels at 1.5 million households, including 2.8 million children.[12] This would be roughly 1.2% of the US population in 2011, presuming a mean household size of 2.55 people.
Measures of poverty[edit] Two official measures of poverty[edit] Printing: Condemning America's Poor For Being Poor; A National Shame. December 11, 2013 By michael payne Let's pick on the poor, trash them and call them lazy, shiftless Americans who don't want to work and are hooked on handouts from the government.
If they would get off their butts and work like the rest of us they wouldn't be poor. Why should hard-working Americans like us have to pay for those who allow themselves to wallow in self-pity and then expect someone else to take care of them? Let's pick on the poor, trash them and call them lazy, shiftless Americans who don't want to work and are hooked on handouts from the government. Yes, let's condemn the poor for being poor; because if they would get off their butts and work like the rest of us they, obviously, wouldn't be poor. Why should self-sufficient, hard-working Americans like us have to pay for those who allow themselves to wallow in self-pity and then expect someone else to take care of them?
Now let's listen to the voices of those who condemn the poor in this country for being poor. Michael Payne. Global poverty. Poverty. Poverty is general scarcity or dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.[1] Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the deprivation of basic human needs, which commonly includes food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care and education. Relative poverty is defined contextually as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live.[2][3] After the industrial revolution, mass production in factories made production goods increasingly less expensive and more accessible. Of more importance is the modernization of agriculture, such as fertilizers, to provide enough yield to feed the population.[4] The supply of basic needs can be restricted by constraints on government services such as corruption, tax avoidance, debt and loan conditionalities and by the brain drain of health care and educational professionals.
Etymology The English word "poverty" via Anglo-Norman povert. Measuring poverty Definitions Absolute poverty. Dvojí metr českých médií. Chudoba vede k nemocím a k ztrátě sebekontroly. Americká národní rada pro výzkum (NRC) a Ústav lékařství vydali v lednu 2013 zprávu Americké zdraví v mezinárodní perspektivě: kratší životy, horší zdraví, která je ohromujícím vyobrazením, jak během posledních čtyřiceti let upadl zdravotní stav Američanů. Tato zpráva použila výraz, který se obecně užívá k popsání poměrného strádání společenských skupin, pro celý národ: „americké zdravotní znevýhodnění“. Jak tohle můžeme vysvětlit a co by se s tím mělo dělat? Výzkumníci vědí o roli společenské nerovnosti v tomto úpadku, nicméně veřejnost a tvůrci politiky se této výzvě pro americké sebepojetí pečlivě vyhýbají. Zdravotní stav Američanů je společenský problém, který vyžaduje společenské řešení.
Již od počátků výzkumu veřejného zdraví v 19. století existovalo znepokojení nad tím, jak velké sociální rozdíly mají závažné následky pro zdraví. Na rozdíl od individualisticky zaměřeného přístupu v USA dala Anglie nový život více než sto let staré myšlence o vztahu mezi bohatstvím a zdravím.