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Erin Erlenborn, ONE's Director of Government Affairs, ONE
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Feb 13, 2008
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Kale, Poverty News Blog
from The Republican On days when freshly fallen snow covers bare trees, when the biting winter wind finds its way between the collar of my coat and the nape of my neck, I sometimes think of her. Pushing a baby carriage over speed bumps made of snow on a Holyoke sidewalk,...
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Feb 13, 2008
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Kale, Poverty News Blog
from Africasia Senegal's leading musician Youssou Ndour and Italian clothing giant Benetton on Wednesday launched a campaign to promote micro-credit as a way to tackle poverty in Africa. "We are trying to focus on the concept that micro-credit could be a good tool for Africa to fight poverty," Ndour said during...
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Feb 13, 2008
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Kale, Poverty News Blog
from Radio Netherlands by Pieternel Gruppen Dutch policy towards Africa in recent years has not given sufficient attention to helping the very poorest. That's one of the conclusions of an official review of Dutch aid to Africa. Yet the battle against poverty is a central element of Dutch policy. One of...
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Feb 13, 2008
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Kale, Poverty News Blog
from The Sowetan Canaan Mdletshe Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini has called on all political parties in KwaZulu-Natal to unite in fighting poverty and crime that is ripping the province apart. Speaking in Pietermaritzburg yesterday during the official opening of the provincial legislature, Zwelithini said it was high time that all...
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Feb 13, 2008
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Kale, Poverty News Blog
from The Press Association One-in-five children is growing up in a household claiming out-of-work benefits, it has been claimed. The Conservatives released figures obtained from the Government showing that 2.2 million children were living in homes dependent on unemployment benefits. In some parts of the country almost half of all children...
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Feb 13, 2008
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Kale, Poverty News Blog
from Newsday By ANGELA DELLI SANTI TRENTON, N.J. - Two weeks before Gov. Jon S. Corzine unveils a budget that he has promised will cap runaway spending while forcing deep program cuts, a group of anti-poverty advocates launched a pre-emptive strike, showing how the state's poorest residents will be hurt. Legal...
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Feb 13, 2008
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Kale, Poverty News Blog
from All Africa Leadership (Abuja) By Justus Nduwugwe Abuja The president, Alhaji Musa Yar'Adua, yesterday launched the N50billion micro-credit development fund, a creation of the bankers committee, which would be administered by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The launching took place at the Transcorp Hotel, Abuja, as part of the national...
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Feb 13, 2008
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Kale, Poverty News Blog
from The Pittsburgh Post Gazette By Chris Gray, The Philadelphia Inquirer SIEM REAP, Cambodia -- Let's be honest: It was the specter of tigers, temples and tom yam soup that led my husband and me to honeymoon in Southeast Asia. We wanted an adventure to remember, on a continent where neither...
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Feb 13, 2008
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Kale, Poverty News Blog
from the Ithaca Journal “You can't look at housing in isolation.†That's what Cornell University professor Joe Laquatra told our reporters for the latest installment of our Touched by Poverty series, and we agree with him. The housing issue in Tompkins County touches all walks of life. Finding affordable good housing...
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