I know that the income gap between the rich and the poor has been increasing at alarming rates over the past decade, but I was shocked to learn that millions of AMERICAN children get by on less than $2 a day. In a third world country, where the cost of living is lower, that might be do-able but what the heck can you buy with 2 bucks in the USA?
http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month -- living at $2 or less in income per person per day -- in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Meanwhile, the top 1% has seen an increase of 60% in their income over the past 20 years -- enough to end global poverty 4 times over.
http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2013-01-19/annual-income-richest-100-people-enough-end-global-poverty-four-times
The $240 billion net income in 2012 of the richest 100 billionaires would be enough to make extreme poverty history four times over, according Oxfam’s report ‘The cost of inequality: how wealth and income extremes hurt us all.’ It is calling on world leaders to curb today’s income extremes and commit to reducing inequality to at least 1990 levels.
The richest one per cent has increased its income by 60 per cent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process.
Oxfam warned that extreme wealth and income is not only unethical it is also economically inefficient, politically corrosive, socially divisive and environmentally destructive.
Where is the public outrage?
If you like reading stats, these will probably shock you:
http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/bellringers_corner/news.php?q=1365211446
en 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of
households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-extreme-poverty-million-children-day.html#jCp
Sorry about all the stuff that got tacked onto the bottom of my post. (Don't know how that happened.)