(C) 2011 US News.  Entire article retrieved from: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2011/04/21/poverty-can-hinder-a-childs-cognitive-development-study-says WEDNESDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- Persistent poverty harms the cognitive development of children, but family instability has no effect, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed data collected from almost 19,000 British children and their families when the children were 9 months, 3 years and 5 years old. The data provided insight into family poverty, family transitions, family demographics...


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Sri Lankan woman says her Saudi employers drove hot metal into her body COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Doctors removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan maid who says the couple she worked for in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body. L.G. Ariyawathi, who was hospitalized with severe pain after returning Saturday from Saudi Arabia, has said the family she worked for punished her by heating the nails and needles before sticking them into her. X-rays showed that she had 24 nails and needles in her body, said Dr. Keerthi Satharasinghe of Kamburupitiya hospital, about 100 miles...


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WASHINGTON — Killings of homeless people have risen to their highest level in a decade, with 43 people killed last year and many more injured in often brutal attacks that are raising concerns among law enforcement officials, rights advocates and politicians, according to new data due to be released this week. The rise in killings, from 27 in 2008, comes as many state and local governments are wrestling with the problem of what to do with the growing number of people forced onto the streets by economic woes. Some states and cities are moving to prosecute violence against the homeless as a hate...


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Picture courtesy of NewsOne for Black America/BlackPlanet. As Social Security approaches its 75th anniversary on Saturday, the program is playing an especially vital role in reducing poverty across America during the worst economic crisis since the Great Recession. If benefits were to be significantly cut, 19.8 million more Americans would be thrust in poverty, according to a recent report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In addition to supporting the elderly, Social Security is currently keeping more than 1 million children and more than 5 million adults below the age of 65 above...


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Breaking News! http://www.teamthemovement.com MIKE STOBBE,AP Medical Writer Saturday, July 24, 2010 ATLANTA (AP) — Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind. The study, released Monday, suggests that HIV is epidemic in certain poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods. And, more significantly, poor heterosexuals in those neighborhoods were twice as likely to be infected as heterosexuals who lived in the same community but had more money. Federal scientists found...


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(C) 2010 retrieved from CNN: Here VBS: Original video and story Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- The first time I heard anything about people living in the sewers in Colombia was back at the beginning of the '90s. The sewage system running under Bogota's streets was filled with packs of kids living waist-deep in human waste and taking in copious amounts of glue and crack in order to cope. This was at the height of Colombia's Dirty War, and the whole reason street kids had moved into the sewers in the first place was to get away from the violence above ground. But then the paramilitary death...


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Copyright © 2010 World Socialist Web Site Entire article retrieved from http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/detr-s02.shtml One-third of Detroit’s population lives below poverty line By David Walsh 2 September 2005 According to US Census Bureau figures released August 30, Detroit is now the poorest city in America, with fully one-third of its residents living below the official federal poverty level, a derisory $19,157 in household income for a family of four. Nearly one half of the city’s children, 47.8 percent, live below the poverty level. In 2002 23.2 percent of Detroit residents...


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(C) 2010 VOA News.  Entire Article retrieved from: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/decapua-somalia-hrw-19apr10-91511669.html A new report says civilians in Somalia are being subjected to indiscriminate killings, cruel punishments and repression. The Human Rights Watch report is called Harsh War, Harsh Peace: Abuses by Al-Shabaab, the Transitional Federal Government and AMISOM.The more than 60 page report is based on interviews with over 70 “victims and witnesses.” Tom Porteous, HRW’s London Director, says, “Essentially the situation in Somalia presents a very stark choice...


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(C) 2010 WHYY.org.  Full Article retrieved from: http://whyy.org/cms/news/government-politics/2010/04/15/can-nj-cuts-to-poverty-programs-be-avoided/36061 By: Phil Gregory Programs that help low income residents in New Jersey are not immune to Governor Christie's budget cuts. Advocates are hoping some of the reductions can be avoided. The Anti-Poverty Network of New Jersey says 27 programs that help the state's most vulnerable residents would be cut by $407 million. Among those cutbacks is the proposed elimination of cash assistance for those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits. Trenton...


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(C) 2010 GlobalIssues.org.  You Can Find This Article At; http://www.globalissues.org/article/8/solving-world-hunger-means-solving-world-poverty. The current Summit [World Food Summit: Fives Years Later] was called by the United Nations to examine why hunger persists despite the 1996 Plan of Action. Progress has lagged by at least 60% behind the goals for the first five years, and today conditions are worsening in much of the world. Without a drastic reorientation of policies, it will be impossible to meet the 2015 goal, and hunger may actually increase. While official documents prepared for the meeting...


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