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Migration, poverty and inequality
People re-locate for various reasons, both legal and illegal, often risking their lives to escape from political oppression, persecution, war and poverty, as well as to be reunited with family and ...
More than 1 billion people live in acute poverty. Half are children and many in conflict zones
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% ...
Los Angeles Downtown News11d
Celebrating Art: Beautiful things can come from unexpected places
Los Angeles Poverty Department staff is inviting residents to take the stage with a song, a poem, a scene from a play — any ...
Research finds 1.1 billion people in multidimensional poverty, with nearly a half-billion in conflict settings
New research from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI ...
World Bank2d
Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report
The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...
Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs $7 billion first
That’s what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out for us on Friday in more than 14,000 words: otherworldly ways in which ...
The New York Times25d
We Need a New Global Measure for Poverty
Sept. 24, 2024 Until fairly recently the majority of humanity lived in what we would now consider extreme poverty. Just two centuries ago, about three-quarters of the world were extremely poor.
BBC5d
Artist inspired by council estate childhood wants to make art more inclusive
"I don't want my exhibition to be like poverty porn, because it's not," she ... Natalie said she was able to experience art as a child because of a man called Chris Robertson, who had a bus ...
Times Union10d
Researchers say poverty and unemployment are up in Lahaina after last year's wildfires
HONOLULU (AP) — Unemployment and poverty are up and incomes are down among Maui wildfire survivors more than a year after a deadly blaze leveled historic Lahaina, a report published Tuesday found.
Bloomberg L.P.22d
Poverty Soars Past 50% in Argentina as Milei Austerity Hits Hard
About 52.9% of Argentines were mired below the poverty line in the first half of the year, up from 41.7% in the second half of 2023, according to government data published Thursday.
France 2422d
Argentina’s poverty rate soars above 50 percent under ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Milei
Poverty in Argentina rose to over 52 percent of the population in the first six months of self-declared “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei’s presidency, according to data released Thursday by ...
CNN21d
Poverty in Argentina soars to more than 50% as government austerity bites
Argentina’s poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data released on Thursday showed, the first hard evidence of the painful impact of libertarian President ...