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Opinion: Coping With Killer Facts
By not in system - AOL NewsAs the World Economic Forum gathers at Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss "Shared Norms for the New Reality," I find myself wondering how we keep coping with the shared norms of a very old reality. I don't want to depress you or anything, but here we go ... 80 percent of humanity lives on less than $10 a day, 50 percent on less than $2.50 a day. (A Japanese cow gets $7 of subsidies a day.) One billion people -- or one in six -- live in slums, and 1 billion children -- one in two -- live in poverty. Up to 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. 2.6 billion people lack basic ...
Is National Whipped Cream Day Insensitive to World Hunger?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsNational Whipped Cream Day. Sounds pretty sweet. Many people in America are apparently celebrating the holiday, which was established sometime after 1954, in well-meaning and good-natured jest. But the obscure occasion being popularized today by the Internet's viral forces is also the subject of harsh criticism. Given all the starvation in the world, some argue, an American celebration of whipped cream is in bad taste. Take, for instance, the following two tweets. .bbpBox22679981100376064 {background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/85178557/Petrina1.jpg) ...
World Aid Gap Imperils Starving Millions in Niger
By Samuel Loewenberg - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- Despite months of warnings, aid agencies have fallen badly short in raising funds to head off a hunger crisis imperiling more than 10 million people in some of Africa's poorest countries on the southern edge of the Sahara. This week the World Food Program said that because of a massive funding shortfall, it will not be able to provide food as planned to 1 million people in Niger, the worst-hit country in the region and one of the poorest in the world. In the landlocked country, which lies at the very bottom of the U.N. Human Development Index, nearly 1 million children under the ...
Can Sarah Silverman End World Hunger? Maybe -- With the Pope's Help
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThanksgiving is over. You're as stuffed as the turkey, but your conscience feels lighter since you gave a little money to one of those help-the-hungry charities that make a big push around the holidays. And now comes a bunch of new surveys telling us that hunger is a bigger problem than ever. To wit: Bread for the World reports that more than 1.02 billion people across the globe go hungry every day -- an increase of more than 100 million from a year ago, while in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture just recorded the highest rate of "food insecurity" since the USDA began ...
Food Summit Urges More Aid to Farmers
By Samuel Loewenberg - AOL NewsROME (Nov. 16) -- In line with the idea that it's better to teach people to farm than just to give them food, leaders at a global food summit Monday promised to put more resources into helping the world's 1 billion undernourished people feed themselves. But they failed to say how much money they would commit to that goal or when the money would arrive. And they backed away from setting an explicit goal of eliminating hunger by 2025. One attendee of the so-called "hunger summit," Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, sought a harvest of a different kind. He engaged 200 women, located through a ...
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