Pies help lift a family from poverty
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Poverty, hunger issue won’t go away
I don’t ever recall going to bed hungry. Compared to millions and millions in our world, this makes me a rarity. Oh, I usually awaken every morning with an appetite. But I do not recall a day when my appetite was
Analysis: Mexican poverty creates climate for exploitation and trafficking
Poverty in Mexico fuels the destructive cycle of human exploitation and trafficking that consumes many young lives, experts on both sides of the Rio Grande agree.
NAE releases paper on climate, poverty
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The National Association of Evangelicals released a document Dec. 14 about changes to the environment and how they affect the poor.
CBF effort to address rural poverty in Missouri
A national initiative for community development may be coming to Missouri in an effort to alleviate rural poverty.
Summit offers ideas, networking to fight poverty
Missouri's poverty rate stands at 15.5 percent, with the rate among children under 18 at 18.9 percent. Individuals and groups, including churches, are partnering to help lower those numbers.
Missourians to End Poverty (MEP) -- a non-profit
Value people, Tuohy challenges those fighting poverty
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Poverty simulation begs middle class questions
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. (ABP) — Tensed like a hungry cat watching a mouse emerge from a hole in the floor I watched the string of numbers on my lottery ticket as Anna Anderson read aloud numbers on the ticket she had just drawn at the
Together for Hope West partners to fight poverty
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World leaders cite progress, challenges at UN poverty summit
NEW YORK (ABP) -- World leaders voiced deep concern about the impact of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression on international anti-poverty goals at a three-day summit at the United Nations Sept. 20-22.