The Hunger Summit held in London on 12 August has had mixed reviews. Not from me. I would have given it six stars if I had been invited – but as I wasn’t, have slashed the score to five stars.
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Fix the minimum wage—income for a minimum-wage breadwinner for a family of four is $7,000 below the federal poverty line
In most states, working full-time in a minimum-wage job pays $7.25 per hour. That’s just $15,000 a year for full-time work. It’s not enough to live on. In fact, a breadwinner for a family of four earning the minimum wage would be a full $7,000 below the federal poverty line.
The hunger wars in our future: heat, drought, rising food costs and global unrest
The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America’s counties designated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn, soybeans, and other food staples is guaranteed to fall far short of predictions.
How to feed 9 billion people
In America’s heartland, farmers are making the agonizing decision to plow down cornfields that have succumbed to the worst drought in decades.
The Price of Inequality
Joseph E. Stiglitz’s new book, “The Price of Inequality,” is the single most comprehensive counterargument to both Democratic neoliberalism and Republican laissez-faire theories. While credible economists running the gamut from center right to center left describe our bleak present as the result of seemingly unstoppable developments — globalization and automation, a self-replicating establishment built on “meritocratic” competition, the debt-driven collapse of 2008 — Stiglitz stands apart in his defiant rejection of such notions of inevitability. He seeks to shift the terms of the debate.
Wages aren’t stagnating, they’re plummeting
For workers in the 10th, 20th and 50th percentiles, median hourly wages haven’t grown much at all since the early 1970s.
Corn for food, not fuel
IT is not often that a stroke of a pen can quickly undo the ravages of nature, but federal regulators now have an opportunity to do just that. Americans’ food budgets will be hit hard by the ongoing Midwestern drought, the worst since 1956. Food bills will rise and many farmers will go bust.
Poverty in America: Why can’t we end it?
RONALD REAGAN famously said, “We fought a war on poverty and poverty won.” With 46 million Americans — 15 percent of the population — now counted as poor, it’s tempting to think he may have been right.
Statement on divisive Foreign Policy piece
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Please, don’t send food: A new study suggests that food aid could actually prolong conflict rather than resolve it
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