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News on Poverty in America
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For news on the "Congress Created Dust Bowl" going on in California go to our Poverty in America and Congress Created Dust Bowl webpages.
Note from Webmaster: I made this site because I grew up in poverty in America. Kids at school made fun of me and said I was "poor" because my clothes were not only "not in style" they didn't fit right. The house I lived in was too small for a family with five children and we only had one old car. Being "poor" and not being accepted by the other kids didn't really bother me, I was a loner anyway. After my son went to Africa for six months to volunteer at some orphanages I realized by the pictures and letters that he sent home I really grew up "rich." Poverty is a lack of hope more than a lack of money. That is why I included this next video in this poverty in America section.
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Absolute Poverty In developing countries, poor and needy people spend up to 80 % of their disposable income on food. There is no buffer to modify their food costs. Those who always lived on the edge of starvation have been tipped over that edge by spiraling prices. Economic theory known as Engel’s Law notes that the proportion of a nation’s income spent on food is a good measure of the nation’s welfare. This is part of an article from the July issue of Spotlight on Orphans newsletter. Read Spotlight on Orphans newsletters to see how Hearth to Hearth Ministries is fighting poverty in Africa by working to feed hungry children.
Poverty in America The US is now in a depression and the poverty rate of poverty in America is probably much worse now.
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