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What Makes Countries Rich or Poor?

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The New York Review of Books - By Jared Diamond - May. 24 (Review) - Norway, the world’s richest country, is 496 times richer than Burundi, the world’s poorest country (average per capita incomes $84,290 and $170 respectively, according to the World Bank). Why? That’s a central question of economics.

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More restaurants are targeting customers who use food stamps

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - Sep. 07 () - The number of businesses approved to accept food stamps grew by a third from 2005 to 2010, U.S. Department of Agriculture records show, as vendors from convenience and dollar discount stores to gas stations and pharmacies increasingly joined the growing entitlement program. Now, restaurants, which typically have not participated in the program, are lobbying for a piece of the action. Louisville-based Yum! Brands, whose restaurants include Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silver's and Pizza Hut, is trying to get restaurants more involved, federal lobbying records show.

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Some Who Feed New York’s Hungry Prefer Cash Over Cans

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Susan Dominus - Dec. 14 (Opinion) - Ann Kansfield, who runs a weekly food pantry at the Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brooklyn, cannot bring herself to tell you this, so I will: She doesn’t want your cans. As uncharitable as it sounds, she doesn’t want your holiday food drives.

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Hunger in California

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - Dec. 14 (Editorial) - California is a bad place to be hungry. While the demand for food stamps is increasing across the nation, people who are eligible for the program are less likely to be enrolled in it here than in any other state but Wyoming. The percentage of low-income children who eat free breakfasts at school here is also lower than the national average.

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What Europe can do to alleviate the global food crisis

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Star (Lebanon) - By Michael Barnier - Nov. 29 (Comment) - The world has been shaken by unprecedented spikes in food prices, by hunger riots, and by social tensions that demonstrate that food supplies have returned as a source of insecurity - to which global warming and declining natural resources are adding unprecedented urgency. By 2050, it is estimated that there will be 9 billion people on earth, so the need for food may double - primarily among urban populations in the world's poorest countries. But there is more to finding a solution than simply identifying those nations that are capable of feeding the rest of the world. It is increasingly urgent that every nation gain the means of feeding itself. This means that agriculture should become an international priority, with the poorest countries helped to safeguard the security and independence of their food supplies.

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