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- Micro-credit fights poverty in Africa
  Posted by Justonehumbletruthseeker from Presst
  Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, the "Banker to the Poor", extends his Nobel-peace-prize winning strategy to help defeat extreme poverty in Africa.
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- G-8 leaders stress support for Africa
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  G-8 leaders pledge money to help relieve Africa's debt -- but will this make a difference?
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- WTO blamed for India grain suicides
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  WTO rules mean multinationals are flooding India with wheat creating poverty.
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- 10% of Palestinian children have lasting malnutrition effects - Haaretz - Israel News
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  The root cause is poverty, according to Khaled Abu Khaled, who directed the study for the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. He said the numbers are up slightly over the past two years. "One obvious effect of malnutrition is stunted growth among children, which has increased about three percent in the last two years," he said.
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- Firms 'ignore' $5 trillion market
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  For a dollar a day, business can care about you. Less than that, not! The report focuses on people in what it describes as the "base of the pyramid" segment of the world's population. Although poor, they are better off than the 1.2bn people who live in abject poverty on less than $1 a day.
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- 1 out of 6 Americans depend on programs for poor
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  The shocking truth about poverty in America: it's everywhere.
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- Welfare state growing despite overhauls
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Nearly one in six Americans rely on public assistance: The number of families receiving cash benefits from welfare has plummeted since the government imposed time limits on the payments a decade ago. But other programs for the poor, including Medicaid, food stamps and disability benefits, are bursting with new enrollees
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okami comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

sure. . .that’s about three times what i’m paying on my house. . .which takes up half my retirement. . .
affordable? not to people worse off than me.

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1:22 am 7/02/08
Jeff comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

Nickels may be a community leading green mayor but he’s also a developer’s mayor and paul allen’s mayor and a do-little mayor on transit.

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11:35 pm 7/01/08
lizsternberg comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I was motivated to write to May Nickels in response to this. Here’s what I wrote to him:
"I do not believe $1115 in rent a month is "Affordable housing."

The fact that there are many well to do business people in Seattle should not put a shadow over the Childcare professionals, construction workers, educators, and Administrative Assistants who make less than 40K a year. If they had to pay $1115 a month it would most certainly be well over 30% of their income.

Are you trying to turn Seattle into an elitist community, or what?"

If you feel the same way, you should email important officials too.

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11:22 pm 7/01/08
Aisleace comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I always heard that rent or housing shoud be 25% of your salary. That $1115 a month works out to a salary of $53520 a year. They must be rich in Seattle if low income singles (because it’s a studio apartment) are making over $53000 a year. Based on a 40 hour week that works out to $25.48/hour.

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9:36 pm 7/01/08
mymanjones comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I live on Social Security only. My income is less than $900 a month. HUD gives we senior citizens a place to live at 30% of income after medical expenses. Try it sometime. Going to the bathroom on a regular basis is our form of joy.

Don Jones

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8:57 pm 7/01/08
newscloud2 comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I think I heard someone call the crane the official bird of Seattle.
See http://www.crosscut.com/real-estate/12205/Skyline%2C 2008/

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5:11 pm 7/01/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

endentured housitude to the fascist bankers

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5:05 pm 7/01/08

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