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Entries tagged with “poverty” from No Kid Hungry blog
- Rep. Ryan's Hunger Games [ No comments]
- March 29, 2012
Today on The Huffington Post, Share Our Strength Founder and CEO Billy Shore expresses concern over House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, which the House is set to vote on today. Here’s an excerpt:
Tags: billy shore , childhood hunger , huffington post , hunger , hunger games , poverty - Our Own Backyard [ No comments]
- March 20, 2012
Earlier this week, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley devoted a segment of the broadcast to bearing witness to poverty in America. The story profiles a photographer named Steve Liss, who in the tradition of Dorothea Lange’s chronicling of the Great Depression, is seeking to “make the invisible, visible” through a photography project called “Our Own Backyard.”
Tags: CBS News Povery , food network documentary , hunger hits home , poverty , Scott Pelley - Big Goals - Big Results! [ No comments]
- March 6, 2012
At the turn of the century, world leaders hammered out an ambitious plan called the Millennium Development Goals. At the time, the most impressive and perhaps inconceivable goal was to cut global poverty in HALF by 2015.
Tags: economist , food crisis , poverty , recession , world bank - Kids Missing From State of the Union [ No comments]
- January 31, 2012
During last week's State of the Union, one of President Obama's principle themes was the need to address income inequality. In a blog post on The Huffington Post, Share Our Strength Founder and CEO Billy Shore points out how the President missed an opportunity to explain the role that hunger, poverty, nutrition, and early childhood development play in making Americans and America more competitive in the world.
Tags: nutrition , poverty , president obama , state of the union
