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Two million Filipino children living in severe food poverty — UNICEF - BusinessWorld Online
BusinessWorld· 9 hours agoIn a report entitled “Child Food Poverty: Nutrition deprivation in early childhood,” UNICEF said 18%...
One in four young children at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to poor diet, Unicef warns
The Independent via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoThe report also found 97 million children, in relatively wealthier households, were in severe food ...
Community leaders call on Akron to focus on preventing violence after mass shooting
Gannett via AOL· 2 days ago"Turn the budget upside down," Greene said. "The city is too focused on policing." Greene said he...
Could putting more low-income Pasco students in one high school harm their learning?
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoSimilarly, poor students in mixed-income schools showed 30% more growth in test scores over their...
The UN says a quarter of the world’s children under 5 have severe food poverty. Many are in Africa....
The Boston Globe· 18 hours agoThe percentage of children living in severe food poverty in West and Central Africa fell from 42% to...
Will India’s new government turbocharge efforts to tackle poverty?
The Economist· 1 day agoWhen it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural...
Poverty reduction to require human capital investment — WB - BusinessWorld Online
BusinessWorld· 2 days ago“Ensuring that the gains from long-term growth are sustained and distributed more evenly requires...
A quarter of the world's children under 5 suffer from severe food poverty, the U.N. says.
Los Angeles Times· 4 hours agoHere in northern Nigeria, where conflict and climate change have long contributed to the problem, her twins are among 181 million children under 5 — or 27% of the world’s youngest children — ...
Are we doing better on child hunger? A sweeping UNICEF report weighs in
NPR· 11 hours agoRwanda has done so by a third. Experts say they all have several...high sugar drinks. “And we've seen in Nepal how a nationwide cash grant to poor families has increased their ...
The Rise of Poverty Inc.
The Atlantic· 6 days agoIn 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty,” and since then, federal spending on anti-poverty initiatives has steadily ...