1 post tagged “hunger”

America is the richest country in world.  America is the richest country in the history of the world.  Yet, almost 20% of the country lives below the poverty line.  11 million children live in households that can't afford to provide enough food.  Instead of having sympathy for the poor, they are demonized as lazy, or "welfare queens."  And what is the number one reason people fall into poverty?  An unforseen medical emergency, where the head of the household a) stops working and b) piles up monstrous medical bills.  Twin fallouts of the end of unionized labor and the lack of  universal, free health-care.  America is the only first-world country on the planet that does not offer universal health care to it's citizens.  But this is about food stamps: Hunger and Food Stamps in America.

Harvard wants to focus on teaching, like Amherst does...

A teacher from Vermont (by way of Williamstown), her son died in 9/11.  To honor his memory, she started a school for girls in Afghanistan.

The War (Farce) on Drugs.  How's that working out?

Scientists find a potential cure for cancer.

Photos of America in the 1940's.