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4th Media: 80 Percent of U.S. Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment

80 Percent of U.S. Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream. Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the …

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SwartzReport: 46.5 Millions US Citizens Living in Poverty

15% of Americans Living in Poverty STEVE HARGREAVES – CNN Money This is not sustainable, it is creating a permanent underclass. Social unrest and the corruption of democracy must follow inevitably. Years after the Great Recession ended, 46.5 million Americans are still living in poverty, according to a Census Bureau report released Tuesday.Meanwhile, median household income …

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Anthony Judge: Part II – Enabling Suffering through Doublespeak and Doublethink Indifference to poverty and retributive justice as case studies

PART II: Enabling Suffering through Doublespeak and Doublethink Indifference to poverty and retributive justice as case studies Cultivating indifference to suffering through doublespeak Enabling suffering through religious doublespeak Enabling suffering through legal doublespeak Enabling suffering through political doublespeak: Iraq vs. Syria Exploiting suffering as a means of moral and emotional blackmail Transcendent justification for indifference …

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Anthony Judge: Is There Never Enough? Religious Doublespeak on Population and Poverty

Is There Never Enough? Religious doublespeak on population and poverty Introduction Mass distraction enabling Mass destruction? Denial of “overpopulation” as a problematic factor Overpopulation denial as promoted by religions and fellow-travellers Deficient analytic capacity of religions Blame-gaming: always someone else’s responsibility Withholding aid as a means of saving future lives? Hypocrisy of current Papal focus …

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Josh Kilborne: 80% of US Adults Near Poverty, Relying on Welfare, or Are Unemployed?

80% Of US Adults Are Near Poverty, Rely On Welfare, Or Are Unemployed Despite consumer confidence at a six-year high, the latest AP survey of the real America shows a stunning four out of five U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, are near poverty, or rely on welfare for at least parts of their lives amid …

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Patrick Meier: Using Big Data to Inform Poverty Reduction Strategies — Data Science for Social Good: Not Cognitive Surplus but Cognitive Mismatch

Using Big Data to Inform Poverty Reduction Strategies My colleagues and I at QCRI are spearheading a new experimental Research and Development (R&D) project with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) team in Cairo, Egypt. Colleagues at Harvard University, MIT and UC Berkeley have also joined the R&D efforts as full-fledged partners. The research question: can …

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