Extended jobless benefits cut in eight states Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post May 11, 2012

US lags in global measure of premature births Donald G McNeil Jr. New York Times May 2, 2012  Ethiopia: Too many deaths in childbirth The Guardian May 5, 2012 See other health and nutrition stories

Reasons abound for lack of job growth (jobs added in April 115,000; workers dropping out of job market 342,000; still unemployed 13,700,000) Catherine Rampell New York Times May 4, 2012 America's long-term unemployed: 'For those looking for work, it's very bleak' Dominic Rushe The Guardian  May 3, 2012 The future of work: trends and challenges for low-income workers Rebecca Thiess Economic Policy Institute April 27, 2012

4 years later, race is still an issue for some voters Sabrina Tavernise New York Times May 3, 2012

House bill offers $261 billion in cuts to programs helping struggling Americans in order to save military spending Jonathan Weisman New York Times May 7, 2012 Defense trumps poverty in Republican House David Rogers Politico May 2, 2012 Republicans' budgets imply deep cuts in programs helping the poor Ezra Klein Washington Post April 10, 2012  

CEO pay and the top 1%--How executive compensation and financial-sector pay have fueled income inequality Lawrence Mishel and Natalie Sabadish Economic Policy Institute May 2, 2012  

Lawmakers face increasing pressure to raise the minimum wage Steven Greenhouse New York Times April 9, 2012

Jim Yong Kim secures World Bank job amid criticism of US domination of role. Seoul-born Kim beats Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who said the decision was not made on merit. Dominic Rushe The Guardian April 16, 2012 Challengers for World Bank leadership ask for ‘a fair chance’ Howard Schneider Washington Post March 30, 2012 Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College president, tapped by Obama to head World Bank Howard Schneider and Zachary Goldfarb Washington Post March 23, 2012 See Hunger Notes special report Trade and Hunger

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Food: Power to the people! IRIN News May 15, 2012  See the African Human Development Report 2012--Towards a Food Secure Future

Global mortality among children younger than five years declined by 26 percent between 2000 and 2010 - meaning that the lives of some two million children were saved - but this is still not enough for many countries to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing deaths in this age group by two-thirds by 2015. Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN  

Child survival up, but not enough IRIN News May 11, 2012 See report

Solutions for a hungry world (online report) Alertnet May 2012

Charles Taylor, former Liberian leader, found guilty of war crimes Edward Cody Washington Post April 26, 2012 In pictures: Charles Taylor and the Liberia and Sierra Leone wars BBC News April 26, 2012

IFPRI launches new global food policy report Hunger Notes April 23, 2012  

Bombings in the heavily populated border town of Bentiu struck a market on its outskirts and killed two civilians, including a child.

Sudanese warplanes bomb town in South Sudan, escalating the threat of full-scale war Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post April 23, 2012 South Sudan: 'We are depending on the leaves of the trees' IRIN News April 4, 2012

As China official Bo Xilai rose, his family’s wealth grew David Barboza New York Times April 23, 2012 Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai family connections--the close relatives of former Chinese Politburo member Bo Xilai and his wife, Gu Kailai, may have profited from the couple’s political influence New York Times April 24, 2012 Murder aside, China inquiry puts couple's wealth on trial Andrew Jacobs and Michael Wines  New York Times April 12, 2012

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