Tag: poverty

Why Am I Not Poor?

Jan 21, 2014

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Economic Development, Poverty

Christianity Today: Why Am I Not Poor? Dale Hanson Bourke For many years I sat in a pew on Sundays, listening to occasional sermons about the poor, giving to special offerings and looking appropriately sympathetic and concerned about poverty. But I did not truly—in evangelical speak—have a heart for the poor. For much of the…
Economics Links

Jan 13, 2014

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mwkruse

in Demography, Economics, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Links – Economics, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

1. The Atlantic: If You Really Care About Ending Poverty, Stop Talking About Inequality Don’t mind the rich-poor gap. Statistical analysis shows three factors—overall income growth, marriages, and local government spending—matter most for poorer children chasing the American Dream. … … But for all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new dataset…
Economics Links

Dec 27, 2013

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mwkruse

in Africa, Business, Capitalism and Markets, Crime, Culture, Economics, Environment, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Links – Economics, Poverty, Race, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

1. Carpe Diem: 5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History Fewer people are dying young, and more are living longer. … Global economic growth in the past five decades has dramatically reduced poverty and made people around the world happier. … War is becoming rarer and less deadly. … Rates of…
Science and Technology Links

Dec 19, 2013

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mwkruse

in Africa, China, Evolution, Health and Medicine, Links – Science and Technology, Science, Technology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

1. Scientific American: Scientific American's Top 10 Science Stories of 2013 A carbon threshold breached, commitments to brain science made, mystery neutrinos found and human evolution revised—these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as picked by the editors of Scientific American 2. Reuters: "Peak farmland" is here, crop area to diminish:…
Rich Man, Poor Man: Poverty, Then And Now

Dec 16, 2013

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mwkruse

in History, Poverty, Public Policy, Sociology

Huffington Post: Rich Man, Poor Man: Poverty, Then And Now Should we try to end poverty? "Yes," you reply, and wonder why we'd even ask. People in earlier times would have been surprised, too. And for them, the answer would have been equally obvious — "no." Well into the 19th century, poverty was widely seen…
Economics Links

Dec 6, 2013

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mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, Demography, Economics, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Links – Economics, Poverty, Public Policy, Sociology, Technology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

1. Poor and Middle Class Incomes Have Increased Significantly "… Using this more sophisticated cost-of-living adjustment, which is preferred by the Congressional Budget Office and Federal Reserve Board, the increase in median household income was not 5 percent but 16 percent from 1979 to 2012. In 2007, like 1979 a peak in the business cycle,…
Capitalism and the Kingdom – Bob Lupton

Nov 25, 2013

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mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, Ecclesia, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Theology

I love Bob Lupton's monthly posts in Urban Perspectives newsletter. I identify with what he writes in his latest installment, Capitalism and the Kingdom. Capitalism is not "biblical" in the sense of being prescribed by God. And in that sense, there is no "biblical" economic system. All economic systems are human constructs that incorporate human…
Economics Links

Nov 8, 2013

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mwkruse

in Central America, China, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Great Divergence, Human Progress, Links – Economics, Poverty, Public Policy, Sociology, South America

1. Your personality type determines your paycheck 2. New York Times editorial: Yes, Economics Is a Science … But the headline-grabbing differences between the findings of these Nobel laureates are less significant than the profound agreement in their scientific approach to economic questions, which is characterized by formulating and testing precise hypotheses. I’m troubled by…
Fewer people won’t save the planet, behaving better will

Oct 24, 2013

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mwkruse

in Demography, Environment, Sociology

Conversation: Fewer people won’t save the planet, behaving better will "… Does the earth have too many people for its own good? Can another three or four billion be added (the current United Nations projection for 2100) without fatally harming the planet? The issue is not one of how many people the planet can support,…
One Person’s Exploitation is Another Person’s Blessing

Oct 18, 2013

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mwkruse

in Business, Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Globalization, Poverty, Public Policy

Writing in his recent post The Alleged "Perils" of "Premature De-Industrialisation." Economist Gavin Kennedy writes: "… I also recall more recently of a Vietnamese woman on being questioned by a Western journalist about her 14-hour working day that she worked six days a week in a new computer-board manufacturing plant near her home village. The…