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Contrary to "Entitlement Society" rhetoric, over nine-tenths of entitlement benefits go to elderly, disabled, or working households Arloc Sherman, Robert Greenstein, and Kathy Ruffing Center on Budget and Policy Priorities February 10, 2012 Even critics of the safety net increasingly depend on it Binyamin Appelbaum and Robert Gebeloff New York Times February 11, 2012 The geography of government benefits (interactive map showing benefits by country throughout the US) New York Times February 11, 2012 Education gap grows between rich and poor Sabrina Tavernese New York Times February 9, 2012 Unemployment drop still leaves low skill workers behind Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post February 6, 2012 Farmers still fighting for immigrant guest-worker program Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers February 9, 2012 Gates Foundation gives $750 million to Global Fund to Combat AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria David Brown Washington Post January 26, 2012 Obama says nation must address inequality Scott Wilson and David Nakamura Washington Post January 24, 2012
Stephen Murdock in his home. In the 14 months since he lost his $11-an-hour construction job, his options have been whittled down to this morning routine of cold calls to friends and neighbors. His weekly unemployment benefits have expired. His food stamps have been trimmed to less than $50 a week. His bank account is in the red, his hot water is turned off, and he no longer has health insurance to treat a pinched nerve or bouts of depression. As South Carolina prepared to to hold its Republican primary, the economically depressed state already has revealed a definitive issue of the 2012 presidential campaign: How can government best serve a record number of jobless and poor? Photo: Washington Post For a jobless, struggling South Carolina man, reality isn’t a political debate. Entitlement society? Opportunity society? Steven Murdock sees little of either. Eli Saslow Washington Post January 19, 2012
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Kayoi Maze, 42, was separated from her two daughters, ages 18 and 16. Her neighbors later informed her that the fighters had abducted them. “I don’t expect to ever see them again,” said Maze, who like hundreds of villagers returned to the city Likuangole over the weekend to receive food aid from the UN’s World Food Program. ”At least I have two daughters left.” Photo: Sudarsan Raghavan/Washington Post In South Sudan, a wave of tribal killings tests fragile independence Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post January 30, 2012 South Sudanese 'massacred' while trying to escape rival ethnic group BBC News January 3, 2012
The new village of Bildak in Ethiopia's Gambella region, which the semi-nomadic Nuer who were forcibly transferred there quickly abandoned in May 2011 because there was no water. Photo: Human Rights Watch Ethiopia 'forcing out thousands in land grab' The Independent January 18, 2012 See full Human Rights Watch report Sudan farmers 'fear foreign land grabs' Al Jazeera January 1, 2012 (video) See Hunger Notes special report Trade and Hunger
The El Molo are a small fishing community found on the south-eastern side of the lake Turkana, northern Kenya. Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN SLIDESHOW: Living on the edge in Kenya's Turkana region IRIN News January 27, 2012
Pounding millet in the village of Boukanda, 50km west of Niamey, capital of Niger Photo: Boureima Balima/IRIN Niger: Thousands of villages hit by severe food shortages; almost half the population of Niger is hungry IRIN News January 24, 2012 Nepal’s Monsanto debate spotlights seed sovereignty IRIN News January 12, 2012 See Hunger Notes special report Trade and Hunger
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