Tag Archives: poverty

Contemporary Life in Perspective

A stunning statistic (via Bloomberg Businessweek): The global median income is around $3 to $4 a day. That means that half of the world’s population lives on less than that. Here’s another stunning statistic (from the same source): According to … Continue reading

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Reverse Super-Size Me: Kenda Swartz Pepper Feels Like 1.02 Billion

People, that is. Kenda Swartz Pepper, on March 20, started an experiment: to spend 21 days experiencing what it’s like to join the one billion people on the planet who go to bed hungry. Here’s Kenda today: 1.02 billion people in … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Destitute Ghetto Inhabitant in Winter, circa 1940

Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive

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Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses?: An Image I Snapped of a Homeless Woman on a Park Bench, the Statue of Liberty Standing in the Distance

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“At the Border”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

  Mexicali waters   sour with laundry suds   California aqueduct   white with almond buds

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George Carlin on God and the Problem of Suffering

In memory of George Carlin (1937-2008), that Prometheus who stole comedy-fire from frowning heaven, and brought it to earth, relieving humans, if for only an hour, of their suffering, wherever God would not or could not. In one of his stand-up routines he … Continue reading

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