Read 1 article about extreme poverty and summarize the article on the blog. Your summary should be at least one paragraph with two quotes from the text in it. Be sure to also list the website, author, title, date published, and periodical that the story first appeared.
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Can Extreme Poverty Be Eleminated? :Crossroads for Poverty
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
August 22, 2005
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=can-extreme-poverty-be-el-2005-09
"...about 1.1 billion out of today's 6.5 billion global inhabitants are utterly destitute in a world of plenty." These 1.1 billion are living on less than 1 dollar a day. They have little to no access to nutrition, clean water, shelter, sanitation, and healthcare. "These donations, often provided to local groups, would need to be closely monitored and audited to ensure that they are correctly targeted toward those truly in need." The article argues that donations will help countries develop and become wealthier. But I think it just lets them think they can rely on free handouts and their economy won't survive on its own. I think to help them we need to help them build a strong and steady economy.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E1D6113DF933A05757C0A9659C8B63
This article is very focused on one group, but you can see the general effect. It says, "In 1995, he said, 41.5 percent of black children lived below the poverty line, but by 2001, only 30 percent were living in poverty." That shows that overall poverty is declining, but specific families are suffering. It also says, "The poverty line for a family of three was about $14,100, the study said, so a family of three living in extreme poverty had a disposable income of about $7,060, the study said." This just means that there ends up being almost no money for anything besides the necessities.
My article was on how the U.N. is focusing on a goal to cut the amount of extreme poverty in half. "Almost half a billion fewer people live in extremme poverty today than in 1990." A hopeful argument has been made, so now the U.N. is setting that goal by 2015 ( to cut extreme poverty in half.) "Skyrocketing food prices risk pushing millions of families that have risen out of poverty back down again;" Here the author states that since the price of living has gone up, now the amount of people living in extreme poverty might go up as well seeing that they cannot afford food.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0924/p02s01-usec.html
Howard LaFranchi
'Extreme poverty the focus at U.N. summit'
September 24, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/Scientific_AmericanSept2005.pdf
this is basacly saying that it can only be stoped a little bit. the one huge thing that needs to be taken care of is the governments in these poor countries. also globalization needs to stop emidiately because if cotton growers here get a subsidy to export some goods to anouther country then all the busnesses in the other countries run out of buisness.
Title: UN Report Says One Billion Suffer Extreme Poverty
Author: David Rowan
Website: www.wsw.org
Date: July 28, 2003
This article says that the porrer countries are continuing to get poorer, while the rest of the world is getting richer. The current financial trends will not be able to help poor countries escape or even cut down poverty and illness rates until over 100 years in the future. "On an assessment of current financial trends some countries would not overcome poverty until the year 2165 and it would take 20 Sub-Saharan African nations until 2147 to halve extreme poverty and until 2165 to cut child mortality rates by two-thirds."
We need to reform our trading systems and help poor countries to become independent, or they will always be in extreme poverty. In this article it says, "...54 nations are poorer now than what they were in 1990." While the whole world seems to be getting richer, third-world countries are taking steps back.
Jasira
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1647466,00.html
Author:? Date:July 26,2007 Periodical:?
This article starts off telling us about places, like Mbola, that are struggling with extreme poverty. In this particular case, Mbola is a rural village, miles away from world trade routes and squarely within Africa's malaria zone, so it was easily left behind. The soils here are starved and not suitable for growing crops anymore. "I have seen firsthand how Mbola's farming households suffer from a recurrent drought--not of water but of nitrogen and other nutrients needed to achieve a decent harvest. Previous harvests have exhausted the soil because Mbola's farmers could not afford chemical or organic fertilizers." It is a vicious cycle, "It's a perfect trap: poor soils lead to poor harvests, and poor harvests lead to poor households unable to replenish the soil." With "aid", theauthor tells us, such villages have begun to climb out of poverty and the quality of life is improving too. The author says that WE can do our part in helping to end extreme poverty. "By contributing to Millennium Promise's You+Village campaign millenniumpromise.org you can fortify Mbola and other villages and follow each step of their progress. You can become a partner with the poor of Africa in the most exciting and realistic possibility of our time: the end of extreme poverty."
Courtney
This article "Poverty is Poison" is about how poverty is bad and can affect us pretty badly, especially at a young age. The author Paul Krugman states "Poverty in early childhood poisons the brain". I agree because at a young age we tend to ask so many questions and when we found out something like being involved in poverty can affect us pretty bad. Also it also says in the article that neuroscientists have found out that children who grow up in very poor families experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones. Poverty can damage people in many ways and should be stopped before it hurts anymore children.
Website:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18krugman.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=poverty&st=cse&oref=slogin
Article: Poverty is Poison
Author: Paul Krugman
Date Published: 2/18/08
Khaled Gulaid
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jul2003/unpo-j28.shtml
David Rowan
July 28, 2003
This article talks about the United Nations (UN). It talks about the Millennium Development Goals, like we did in class. The article was very similar. It tells us that the UN can cut all extreme poverty levels in half by 2015. I think that that is good progress. Also, it talks about how the people of poorer countries are getting poorer and poorer. Also, it shows how poorer countries are developing not even 1 percent a year. That is astonishing. In the text, it says ,"The UNDP report notes that 54 nations are poorer now than they were in 1990." That shows how countries are getting poorer and poorer from time to time. Also, it said,"Per capita income in each of the 42 highly indebted countries in the report is less than $1,500 and between 1990 and 2001 these economies grew on average by only half a percent per year." This shows that development in poorer countries are going at very small rates.
rishi
http://www.endpoverty2015.org/
End poverty Millennium Campaign
G8 has 8 goals to end poverty.
There are to:
1) end hungar
2)universal education
3) gender equity
4)child health
5)maternal health
6)combat HIV/AIDS
7) environmental sustainability
8)global partnership
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E1D6113DF933A05757C0A9659C8B63
Written by Sam Dillon
Date Written - April 30th, 2003
New York Times
The number of black children under the age of 18 in poverty has been rising since the year 2000. "...is now at its highest level since the government began collecting such figures in 1980, according to a study by the Children's Defense Fund, a child welfare advocacy group." Many families have been able to rise above the poverty line, but most people have not. The families who are below the poverty line are WAY below it - the average family only made about $7,060 annually, in a family with three people in it. One of the most beneficial acts taken by the government to help the poor was by Bill Clinton in 1996 when her signed the overhaul of the welfare system. " Ms. Waller said... the '96 welfare reform law has been beneficial for many families."
~ Lisa
www.unmillenniumproject.org/Scientific_AmericanSept2005.pdf
Author:Jeffrey D. Sachs
Title:Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated?
Date Published:Sept. 2005
This article explains that extreme poverty can be stopped. Some statistics also support this statement. The article states more than 5 billion of the world's 6.5 billion people can meet their basic living needs. Our country has improved. Some people are really making an effort to eliminate this problem. The article also states,"Extreme poverty could become a thing of the past in a few decades if the affluent countries of the world pony up a small percentage of their wealth to help the planet's 1.1 billion indigent populations out of conditions of dire poverty." I agree with this statement. I think if we all work together we could put this behind us.
Qiana
csmontor.com
Howard LaFranche
Extreme poverty the focus at UN summit
Not many people have heard than "half a billion fewer people live in extreme poverty," because the smaller amounts of food and gas prices dwarfed this news. The UN want to increase this number even further by setting "goals for cutting extreme poverty n half by 2015. the reason for these goals is because they know they could work. they knew this because they set 8 rules 2000. these rules are what helped get those half a billion people out of poverty.
The article I read was about how in 2005 the World Bank reported that there were 1.4 million people living in extreme poverty. They say one reason why people are living so poor is because the economy is hard for them to live by. For example, the article says "India, which has more people in extreme poverty than it did 25 years ago, must reform its farm sector to increase dismal productivity and broaden its narrow economic expansion." Also education is a must for all countries. "All developing countries must invest more in education."
SITE: New York Times
PUBLISHED: Sept 2, 2008
DEBATE
Clearly, Barack Obama won this debate. All of his plans show that he cares about us, and is trying to make life easier for all of us. For example, he wants to end tax breaks for jobs sending jobs overseas, and give tax cuts for companies that are keeping their jobs here in America. With this plan, maybe more companies will actually keep jobs here, because they won't be so desperate. Obama also chose a good running mate. He states that Joe Biden fights for the little guy. He wants to help working families. Both Obama and Biden don't like how our past 8 years have gone. Thye think we'll have another 4 just like that if McCain is elected. Obama and Biden want to reprioritize and help America. They want kids to be able to afford college and wants everyone to have Healthcare. I think Obama shows that he can bring change to our country.
Qiana
www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&y=&mo=&fip081023.htm&no=A0
giving jobs to people
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