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Unemployment drop still leaves low skill workers behind
Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post February 6, 2011
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

A tariff on imported ethanol, which expired
December 31, 2011, along with a tax credit that cost $6 billion in 2011, aided producers like Marquis Energy, which operates an ethanol plant in Hennepin, Ill. Nearly 40 percent of the United States corn crop goes to ethanol and byproducts.
The use of corn for ethanol has contributed to higher
food prices worldwide. Photo: Peter Wynn Thompson/New York Times
After three decades, tax break for ethanol expires
Robert Pear New York Times January 1, 2012
Harder for Americans to
rise from lower rungs Jason DeParle
New York Times January 4, 2012

American demand for year-round organic fruits and vegetables has incited a farming boom in the arid deserts of the Baja Peninsula in Mexico.
The explosive growth in commercial cultivation is
putting stress on the water table. In some areas, wells
have run dry this year, meaning that small subsistence
farmers cannot grow crops.
Photo: New York Times
Organic agriculture may be outgrowing its ideals
Elisabeth Rosenthal New York Times
December 30, 2011
Wealth gap widens between US Congress and constituents
(Congress median wealth $750,000; constituents $20,500)
Peter Whoriskey Washington Post
December 26, 2011
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is now helping 46 million people afford an adequate diet
Stacey Dean Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities December 19, 2011
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Taking Stock of the Safety Net, Part 3: Helping Families
Afford Decent Housing
Taking Stock of the Safety Net, Part 2: Meeting
Families’ Basic Needs Through TANF
Taking Stock of the Safety Net, Part 1: Overview
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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, 2011
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
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Human Rights Watch report
Sudan farmers 'fear foreign land grabs'
Al Jazeera January 1, 2012 (video)
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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
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report
Trade and Hunger
Developed world failing on climate funds pledge, says Bangladeshi minister
Fiona Harvey The Guardian
January 2, 2012 See Hunger Notes special report
Environment and hunger

As many as a million people live and work in Dharavi, a sprawling slum in Mumbai, India. Photo: Adam Ferguson/New York Times
In one slum, misery, work, politics, and hope
Jim Yardley New York Times
December 28, 2011
Vietnam: From rice to shrimps and ginger--adapting to saltwater intrusion caused by rising sea levels IRIN News
December 28, 2011
Lentils in Nepal (short video) IRIN News
December 2011
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Why (The King of Love is Dead)
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MLK's assassination on April 4, 1968)
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