Ranks of Working Poor Grow in Europe (Published 2012)
Jean, 51, an electrician, lives in a shelter in the Bois de Vincennes, a park behind a parking lot in eastern Paris.Credit...William Daniels for The International Herald Tribune PARIS — When Melissa Dos Santos leaves her job at the end of each day, she goes home to an unlikely place: a tiny trailer in a campground 30 miles north of Paris, where scores of people who can barely make ends meet are li
特集ワイド：内閣府参与を辞任、湯浅誠さん 「入って」みたら見えたこと - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
◇ブラックボックスの内部は「調整の現場」だった ０８年末の「年越し派遣村」村長として知られる湯浅誠さんが今月７日、内閣府参与を辞任した。政府の外から貧困対策を訴えてきた社会運動家が、政権内に入って約２年。中に入って見えたものは？【山寺香】 ◇求められれば関わり続ける 湯浅さんが最初に内閣府参与になったのは、民主党に政権交代した直後の０９年１０月。派遣村村長として政府を厳しく批判してきた人物の登用は、注目を集めた。１０年３月に一旦辞任し、同年５月に再任用された。 この間の政権の変化をどう見ているのか。 「漠としたイメージで言うと、従来の自公政権から一番外れたのが鳩山由紀夫政権でした。そこで提示された格差・貧困政策の方向性はおおむね歓迎すべきものでしたが、その後の菅直人政権で少し戻ってきて、野田佳彦政権でかなり戻ってきた。菅さんのころから、かつての自民党の幅の中に収まってきたと感じています」。
Family of three dies from apparent starvation in Japan
Authorities in Japan are under pressure to explain how three members of the same family were allowed to die of apparent starvation, after their bodies were discovered two months after their deaths. Police found the bodies of a couple believed to be in their 60s and their son, thought to be in his 30s, at their apartment in Saitama, north of Tokyo, after the building's owner said he had been unable
Worlds apart – the neighbourhoods that sum up a divided America
They are barely a mile apart, separated by a few gritty streets and a thin muddy stretch of water known as the Harlem river. They are in the same city and have experienced the same recession. But New Yorkers living in the city's 14th and 16th congressional districts – electoral districts with populations of around 600,000 each – often occupy completely different worlds. Their lives provide a shock
There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored | Nina Power
Since the coalition came to power just over a year ago, the country has seen multiple student protests, occupations of dozens of universities, several strikes, a half-a-million-strong trade union march and now unrest on the streets of the capital (preceded by clashes with Bristol police in Stokes Croft earlier in the year). Each of these events was sparked by a different cause, yet all take place
On the trail of George Orwell’s outcasts
Orwell's narration begins in the street he called the Rue du Coq d'Or, in the 5th Arrondissement, where he once lived Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in his book Down and Out in Paris and London, what has changed? Retracing the writer's footsteps, Emma Jane Kirby finds the hallmarks of poverty identified by Orwell - addiction, exhaustion and, oft
India Microcredit Faces Collapse From Defaults (Published 2010)
MADOOR, India � India’s rapidly growing private microcredit industry faces imminent collapse as almost all borrowers in one of India’s largest states have stopped repaying their loans, egged on by politicians who accuse the industry of earning outsize profits on the backs of the poor. The crisis has been building for weeks, but has now reached a critical stage. Indian banks, which put up about 80
‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback (Published 2010)
A vacant lot on East 110th Street in New York in 1952: the study of urban blight has long been influenced by political fashions.Credit...William C. Eckenberg/The New York Times For more than 40 years, social scientists investigating the causes of poverty have tended to treat cultural explanations like Lord Voldemort: That Which Must Not Be Named. The reticence was a legacy of the ugly battles that
Booming China, Migrant Misery | Richard Bernstein
There are an estimated 130 million *nung-gong*, or peasant workers, in China, making up what Lixin Fan, in his powerful documentary *Last Train Home* calls “the world’s largest human migration.” At the beginning of September, a Beijing criminal court announced a decision that called attention to the difficult and sometimes tragic circumstances of millions of migrant workers in China who have left
Number of Americans living in poverty 'increases by 4m'
The number of Americans with health insurance declined, forcing many to line up at free clinics One in seven Americans was living in poverty in 2009 with the level of working-age poor the highest since the 1960s, the US Census Bureau says. The number of people in poverty increased by nearly 4m - to 43.6m - between 2008 and 2009, officials said. The bureau defines poverty as any family of four livi
Unicef - Put It Right
Put it Right (http://www.unicef.org.uk ) is a five year initiative by Unicef UK to inspire action to protect the rights of children everywhere. This film is a glimpse into the lives of children around the world who are missing out on these basic rights - the right to an education, to a childhood, to be healthy, to be treated fairly and to be heard. This is wrong. Please take action today and help
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