poverty

Cuba's elderly population, comprising over a quarter of the country's inhabitants, is facing a severe and rapidly deteriorating economic crisis. Pension amounts are woefully inadequate,…
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By the end of this American celebration of excess, South Floridians will have spent no less than 15 million taxpayer dollars to host the affair.
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Only a slip-up by our parliamentarians can explain how they've missed an essential word in the project of the new Constitution being discussed in Cuba.  
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How do you distribute wealth and income in the country? A group of experts agreed that presently it is extremely difficult to gage Cuba's dividing line between poverty and wealth…
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s sweeping victory in Mexico’s presidential election Sunday said a lot about the country’s national mood, and the electorate’s justifiable anger over…
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It took the right-wing pundit class all of four days to decide how it planned to attack Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old Bronx native who won her New York City congressional…
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Today our government is closer to a plutocracy than that of any other developed country — and many that are not so developed. That assertion will strike many people as false, others as…
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A wealth of new research confirms the rich and the poor have no idea how good and how bad the other have it.
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Miami has become, borrowing the title of the Charles Dickens classic, a tale of two cities. Actually, if you look around, it’s what’s happening in too many parts of our world.
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While the international community pledged over $10 billion for relief and reconstruction following the quake, much of that assistance ultimately went to agencies and contractors from…
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