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Egypt announced Saturday steep increases in fuel and cooking gas prices as part of the country's economic reforms and austerity measures designed to overhaul the country's ailing economy. The new prices went into effect Saturday morning, the Ministry of Oil said in a statement. Prices for ...
Japan's never-ending struggle to keep poverty at bay
The first coverage of poverty in Japan's weekly business magazines may be traced back the spring of 2009, when Weekly Diamond, in its March 21 cover story, purported to expose "The poverty you don't know." The timing of the issue came six months after ...
U.N. special rapporteur says American poverty is deepening under Trump
Poverty in the United States is extensive and is deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from millions of poor, while rewarding the rich, a U.N. human rights investigator has found. Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme ...
Nicaraguan protesters fired homemade mortars to fend off a police crackdown Saturday in new unrest that left at least six people dead, including a U.S. citizen, as the opposition renewed calls for President Daniel Ortega's resignation. But Ortega, the man who has dominated the Central ...
Japan redraws its line in the sand for poverty
If an income of ¥10 million a year can't save you from poverty, what can? When "Suzuki-san" (as we'll call him) declared personal bankruptcy five years ago, he was ¥70 million in debt. His story is told by Spa! magazine as part of its report ...
The ethics of reducing wealth inequality
Addressing income and wealth disparities will require a careful balance between policies that ensure equality and policies that reward work and innovation.
Trump signs executive order strengthening work requirements for welfare
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that aims to add and strengthen work requirements for public assistance and other welfare programs. The order, signed in private, promotes "common-sense reforms" that policy adviser Andrew Bremberg said would reduce dependence on government programs. "Part of President ...
More kodomo shokudō eateries in Japan offering discounted meals to children in poverty: survey
A survey by a private sector group has found that 2,286 cafeterias that offer meals to children for free or at a discount have been set up in Japan since 2012, as part of efforts to address child poverty. The number of such cafeterias, known ...
Too much of an education could be bad for your future
While school rucksacks in Japan may be getting heavier, the prospects for the over-educated may be getting bleaker.
As wild weather worsens, Philippine migration takes on a female face
When the rains failed in 2015 and drought gripped southern Mindanao in the Philippines, Corazon Vegafria knew what she had to do: move to the city of Koronadal, about an hour away by bus, and find work as a domestic helper to support her ...
Philippines' city of the future: New Clark
He may never set foot in New Clark City, but taxi driver Edgard Labitag hopes the Philippines' first green, disaster-resilient, high-tech metropolis will ease the pressure on Manila — meaning fewer hours stuck in traffic and more time with his children. At the wheel on ...
Social networking key to food security
Ending global hunger is as much about re-imagining social networks as it is about deciding what goes into the ground.
