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  • April 24, 2019
  • Aid Talk , BetterAid.org , Food Bank
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Food Bank: A Call For Discussion On Poverty

What sort of a role do food banks play in fighting poverty? They certainly are a massive tool to provide relief for people who have been, due to poverty, pushed into acute suffering of hunger and are the recipients of generous donations from large-hearted people who want to do their bit for the soc...
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  • March 28, 2019
  • Aid Talk , BetterAid.org , Politics
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Ending Extreme Poverty: Making Progress In The Current Political Climate

You would think that a superpower like United States of America won’t have any people suffering from extreme -poverty. Unfortunately, that is not the case. In spite of its economic and political superpower, the country has its own share of very poor people. Philip Alston, UN’s special rapporteur...
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  • February 18, 2019
  • Aid Approach , Aid Talk , BetterAid.org
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Privatizing The Fight Against Poverty

Debates over the best way to combat social issues continues to cause major divisions in the United States, especially its politics. While the Left firmly believes that government intervention and spending on social security schemes are a must, the Right fights back with claims that these are either ...
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  • January 21, 2019
  • BetterAid.org , Campaigns , Smithfield
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Helping Hungry Homes: Smithfield Donates Food To Food Lifeline

Poverty is a curse that manifests itself in various aspects of lives of people. The most galling and painful aspect of poverty is hunger. Millions of people around the world, especially children, suffer malnutrition due to lack of proper and nutritious food. It’s hard to believe but this problem e...
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  • December 19, 2018
  • BetterAid.org , Campaigns , United Way
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United Way’s Campaign To Fight Poverty In Greater Cleveland

Fighting poverty in USA sounds like a task not too many people would be interested in. With a fierce fight going on between the two parties on issues connected to ideological fault lines, few people seem to have the time for dealing with this issue. But, thankfully, there is one organisation which ...
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  • November 9, 2018
  • BetterAid.org , Campaigns , The Borgen Project
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The Borgen Project: A Quest To Increase US Response To Global Poverty

United States of America is the world’s only superpower. It is the strongest and richest nation on the planet as well as one with a population enjoying standards of living that people in most other countries can only dream of. With such credentials, you expect this nation to take the leadership ro...
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We firmly believe that one of the causes that poverty in this country is not as big an issue as it should be is because people across the country don’t come across this disturbing reality. They are blissfully unaware of the struggles people have to wage on a daily basis to survive in this cold, harsh world.

Recent Articles

  • Food Bank: A Call For Discussion On Poverty
  • Ending Extreme Poverty: Making Progress In The Current Political Climate
  • Privatizing The Fight Against Poverty
  • Helping Hungry Homes: Smithfield Donates Food To Food Lifeline
  • United Way’s Campaign To Fight Poverty In Greater Cleveland
  • The Borgen Project: A Quest To Increase US Response To Global Poverty

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Did You Know?

In 2017, the poverty threshold set by the government was $12,140 for a family of one and $25,100 for a family of four.
Poor People’s Campaign was launched by Rev Dr Martin Luther King in 1968
Till now, 113,521,980 servings of protein have been donated by Smithfield as part of this program.
66% of the people in jails are those belonging to racial minorities even though their share in the population is just 39%.
Of these 46 million people that were reliant on food banks in 2014, 43% were white, 26% black and 20% Hispanic.

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  • Food Bank: A Call For Discussion On Poverty

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