Questions tagged [poverty]
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Does anybody spend 6 hours each day just to get water?
During the 2018 Super Bowl there was a commercial advertising a campaign to help bring fresh water to people in developing countries. It argued that fresh water is grossly easy to attain in developed countries yet
millions of people in the…
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Are rich, black kids imprisoned more often than poor, white kids, in the USA?
The Washington Post gives a detailed report of a recent study:
A stark new finding epitomizes that reality: In recent decades, rich black kids have been more likely to go to prison than poor white kids.
"Race trumps class, at least when it comes to…
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Is extreme poverty in the world getting worse?
In a recent Guardian article Jason Hickel argues that the west needs to de-develop in order to have any hope of meeting the UN goal of eradicating world poverty. He specifically says:
Growth has been the main object of development for the past 70…
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Does majority-white and majority-republican Owsley county have the highest SNAP usage?
Just saw this one shared on Facebook by Occupy Democrats with 79k+ likes. It's a repost of this by Less Than 10 Dollars an Hour.
Text reads:
Today's Bit of Irony
Owsley County, Kentucky
Is 99.22% White and 95% Republican
It has the Highest Usage…
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Do the world's eight richest people have as much wealth as the poorest 50%
The charity Oxfam recently launched a media campaign about global inequality with the startling statistic (this page on their website):
...inequality is rising: the combined wealth of the richest 1 per cent will overtake that of the other 99 per…
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Does nearly half the world's population live on less than $2 a day?
This UN page about 'Hunger', for example, says,
Nearly half the world’s population, 2.8 billion people, survive on less than $2 a day.
Quotes like this are shocking; but practically, I don't understand how a person could survive with food, water,…
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Were official poverty rates in India distorted by changes to dietary needs?
In this January 2006 episode of BBC Hard Talk, then Director of Action Aid India, Babu Mathew, was asked whether poverty amelioration is linked to economic growth in light of the fact that in 1978 poverty rate was 51% of the population, whereas in…
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Earned income tax credit 25% fraud?
I was listening a discussion on poverty on CSPAN radio this morning and Robert E. Rector from The Heritage Foundation claimed that 25% of the Earned Income tax credit is fraudulent.
Specifically, the claim was that 25% of the money goes to people…
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Do US food stamp recipients outnumber women who work full-time?
This story has been circulating through the conservative media channels:
In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of Agriculture, there were 46,609,000 people participating in the food stamp program (formally known as the…
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Did China achieve its benchmark of lifting 1.4 billion people out of poverty mainly by lowering the standard?
In the video "Poor Chinese Girl eats RATS" (which is from the same source as the one deriding China for declaring itself a "developing country", FWTW) it is said that:
their blustering of lifting all these 1.4 billion people out of poverty. It's…
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Is child's development in danger if living in institutions, like “orphanages”?
Decades of international research shows that living in institutions,
like “orphanages”, is harmful to a child’s development.
The Source of this statement doesn't provide any reference to this research.
What research has been done to prove this…
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Are one-third of human deaths from "poverty-related causes"?
I found a poster that makes some incredible claims, and I want to see how well they stand up to scrutiny. The citation is vague, and I wonder how accurately the claims represent the sources, if at all.
Poster:
Separate claims to verify:
18 million…
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Has the Catholic Church lifted more people out of poverty than any other civic institution?
The New York Times published an editorial on December 29, 2013 about Pope Francis titled "Radical Pope, Traditional Values" which includes the following statement:
As a result of its work in basic health and education — and despite its obtuse views…
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Is poverty the strongest cause of crime?
TLDR: Is crime the most important cause of crime?
A common claim, as far as I have seen never sourced in any meaningful way, is that poverty constitutes the strongest or in other ways most relevant criminogenic factor.
Recently came across a video…
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