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On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired - WSJ.com
A few years ago, some people were worrying that a "digital divide" would separate technology haves and have-nots. The poorest lack the means to buy computers and Web access. Still, in America today, even people without street addresses feel compelled to have Internet addresses.
Seriously, I thought that was metaphorical... [PIC]
Funny how those Christians most focused on Judgment Day ignore the one part of the Bible that directly addresses what will happen on that day -- and from the mouth of Jesus himself:
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett review | Non-fiction book reviews - Times Online
Their book charts the level of health and social problems — as many as they could find reliable figures for — against the level of income inequality in 20 of the world’s richest nations, and in each of the 50 United States. They allocate a brief chapter to each problem, supplying graphs that display the evidence starkly and unarguably. What they find is that, in states and countries where there is a big gap between the incomes of rich and poor, mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity and teenage pregnancy are more common, the homicide rate is higher, life expectancy is shorter, and children’s educational performance and literacy scores are worse. The Scandinavian countries and Japan consistently come at the positive end of this spectrum. They have the smallest differences between higher and lower incomes, and the best record of psycho-social health. The countries with the widest gulf between rich and poor, and the highest incidence of most health and social problems, are Britain, America and Portugal.
PimpThisBum.com employs irony on homeless man's behalf - CNN.com
When Sean Dolan saw signs being carried by homeless people, he saw an opportunity. He and his father wanted to drive people to a Web site, so they created PimpThisBum.com as a marketing tool and gave a homeless man a sign with the Web site's address to hold while panhandling in Houston.
Their idea worked.
Pam Dorr Builds Sustainable Homes for $20k : TreeHugger
we focus on some incredible work being done by Pam Dorr and her group - specifically, how they figured out how to build a sustainably crafted house for $20,000 - something anyone in architecture will say is impossible - and how they're helping people own homes on $600 a month.
Tenant internet connects broader band of people - Technology - smh.com.au
Collingwood is the second high-rise estate to be wired up by the non-profit company Infoxchange, with its motto "Technology for social justice". Tenants have been offered a free refurbished PC, a free three-day computer course, and access to email and broadband for $5 to $15 a month, depending on downloads.
Cellphones - Third World and Developing Nations - Poverty - Technology - New York Times
Motorola now provides free solar-powered charging kiosks to female entrepreneurs in Uganda, who use them to sell airtime. The company is also testing wind- and solar-powered base stations in Namibia, which could bring down the cost of connecting remote ar
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Options for Poor Women on the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
States are allowed to provide their own funds to pay for poor women's abortions, but only a handful do so; elsewhere, poor women must scrape together funds that would otherwise have paid for food, clothing, or rent.
Ireland can teach us a thing or two about compassion - Opinion - smh.com.au
Ireland introduced a national anti-poverty plan in 1997 and success has been dramatic. In 10 years it has slashed what it calls its "consistent poverty" rate from 15 per cent to less than 5 per cent. Now it aims to cut that to below 2 per cent.
Gregg Easterbrook: Greatest Living American Ignored - Media on The Huffington Post
Every nation his green thumb touched has known dramatic food production increases plus falling fertility rates..., higher girls' education rates..., and rising living standards for average people.
The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV - CommonDreams.org - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
From Vietnam to South Africa to Latin America, King said, the U.S. was “on the wrong side of a world revolution.” King questioned “our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America,” and asked why the U.S. was suppressing revolutions “of the
www.BrazilianArtists.net, the A-Z of Brazilian Arts, Entertainment & Cultural Events in the UK
Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He was the author of the flags campaign "Meet the World" that has been circulating the earth in chain letters via e-mail
G A P M I N D E R: HOME
Gapminder produce an interactive presentation for the "Human Development Report 2005" by UNDP. OUR VISION Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics!
7.30 Report - 14/11/2005: Kerry OBrien speaks with Noel Pearson
KERRY O'BRIEN: And earlier today I spoke with Noel Pearson by satellite from Cairns. Noel Pearson, Bob Gregory paints a very bleak picture for most remote indigenous communities, and that to escape that bleakness, the future for the children of those comm
George Monbiot » Better off without Him
But if we are to accept the findings [...] the message to those who claim in any sense to be pro-life is unequivocal. If you want people to behave as Christians advocate, you should tell them that God does not exist.
A Practical Plan to End Poverty (washingtonpost.com)
Taken together, these and similar steps would change the face of extreme poverty -- indeed, put the world on a path to eliminate it in this generation. Yet these steps are not taken.
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