Argentina factory output, growth slowing: By Hilary Burke and Eduardo Garcia BUENOS AIRES, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Argentina's industrial output growth slowed in August to 5.2 percent year-on-year, while month-on-month economic activity contracted in July for the first time in 13 months, ...
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martes, 27 de septiembre de 2011
Recession drove up poverty rates in most states
Recession drove up poverty rates in most states
US long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad decided on Sunday to abandon her third attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. New York police can shoot down an airplane if needed, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told "60 Minutes." ATHERTON, California (Reuters) ...
Rise in poverty threatens Florida's future
Rise in poverty threatens Florida's future: BY DANIELLA LEVINE For 16 years, Catalyst Miami has connected families with the services they need. Our office used to see a steady trickle of people; that trickle has become a deluge. Recently, we helped a social worker with years of experience apply ...
Focus is on service learning
Focus is on service learning: By Hannah Poturalski and Hannah Porturalski OXFORD — Each year thousands of Miami University students give more than $1.2 million in service hours to address issues such as hunger, poverty and illiteracy — a figure based on the value of a volunteer ...
Bill for low-income families enacted
Bill for low-income families enacted: The Ethical Family Income act will give monetary support to families who live at or below the poverty line in Chile. The Representation of the amount paid to single-parent family. Photo Credit: Gobierno de Chile goal is to supplement the incomes of ...
Evita reigns over city of the dead
Evita reigns over city of the dead:
| In Buenos Aires' Recoleta cemetery, visitors throng to an austere black family vault decorated with nothing but numerous flower bouquets. Camera flashes go off throughout the narrow passageway. Here rests the queen of the cemetery, the final resting ... |  Independent Online |
Mexico cartels seek to silence social networks
Mexico cartels seek to silence social networks: By Adam Thomson in Mexico City When the body of a middle-aged woman was discovered on the weekend in the northern Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, it seemed that the killing would go down as just another footnote in Mexico's escalating drugs war. ...
Grondona to face rival for Argentine presidency
Grondona to face rival for Argentine presidency: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – Julio Grondona's bid for a ninth straight term as Argentina Football Association president is being challenged by the head of Velez Sarsfield, who is expected to run against the 80-year-old incumbent. ...
Latin America a "growth miracle"?
Latin America a "growth miracle"?:
| According to the latest World Bank report, Latin America has spent the last decade in rapid expansion — and the growth has benefited the poor. More than 50 million people have been lifted from moderate poverty from 2002 to 2008. ... |  GlobalPost (blog) |
Recession drove up poverty rates in almost all states
Recession drove up poverty rates in almost all states:
| Poverty rates increased in almost all US states and the District of Columbia over the course of the economic recession, with the worst spike in the South, according to a congressional report released on Monday. In the South the number of people living ... |  Press TV |
Central Park walk to tackle global poverty
Central Park walk to tackle global poverty: "The idea that 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day -- that's one of the things we really focus on, the fact that we can really do so much with so little," said Kausar Mohammed, spokeswoman for the Northern California chapter of the ...
Chile Stocks Up 2.3%, Boosted By Commodities Companies
Chile Stocks Up 2.3%, Boosted By Commodities Companies: SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--Chile's blue-chip Ipsa index surged higher Tuesday morning, tracking rising overseas markets as investors remained hopeful officials could stem Europe's debt crisis. In recent trading, the Ipsa was 2.3% higher at 3899.00 points, ...
FWS favoring rights of sportsmen over Native American culture and spirituality
FWS favoring rights of sportsmen over Native American culture and spirituality
Recently, several Native American leaders have alerted me to the proposed attack upon our sacred messenger, the eagle, by a government agency, the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The US Fish & Wildlife Service, under the guise of its rule making and ...
Poverty is relative, wealth is absolute
Poverty is relative, wealth is absolute: At Versailles in Florida, (90000 square feet) the master bedroom covers 8000 square feet. That is almost three times greater than a typical large house of the 1980s. The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, the world's largest Anglican ...
Nevada Income Sees Biggest Decline in Nation
Nevada Income Sees Biggest Decline in Nation: Only five other states saw income levels drop by at least 10 percent.Nevada also had the second highest increase in the national poverty rate, after only Florida. Nevada's poverty rate increased by 4.3 percent. Florida's grew by 4.4 percent. ...
Colombia creates the most jobs in Latin America
Colombia creates the most jobs in Latin America: Colombia created the most employment in Latin America, with 700000 jobs in one year, President Juan Manuel Santos has announced, according to a presidential press release. "Between all the countries of Latin America, in the last year, from August of ...
Chile Peso Strengthens 1.4% To One-Week High On Copper Gains
Chile Peso Strengthens 1.4% To One-Week High On Copper Gains: SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--The Chilean peso was trading 1.4% stronger versus the dollar Tuesday morning, as international copper prices shot higher and global equities rose amid optimism European officials will implement measures to tame the euro-zone's ...
The beautiful fury of the Chilean student movement
The beautiful fury of the Chilean student movement: Even though Chile has the highest per capita income in Latin America, the 15 percent of the Chilean population that live in poverty live a much different reality. Many middle−class Chilean graduates denounce the inability to even pay back their ...
Cuba says it's ready for dialogue with U.S.
Cuba says it's ready for dialogue with U.S.:
| Cuba says it's ready for dialogue with US President Raul Castro has expressed on several occasions the willingness of Cuba to engage in dialogue and accept "the challenge of maintaining a normal relationship with the United States. ... |  Fox News |
Group vows to 'eliminate' feared Mexican drug gang
Group vows to 'eliminate' feared Mexican drug gang
At least 41000 people have been killed in Mexico's drug war since 2006, when the government launched a military crackdown on powerful cartels embroiled in turf wars marked by kidnappings, torture and mass graves. Screen capture of a paramilitary group ...
Bolivia's cocaine conundrum
Bolivia's cocaine conundrum: ... of the greed and power of the drug lords and their cartels and the opportunistic pursuits of men like General Sanabria, but for reasons that have to do with cultural traditions and in cases like Bolivia's, poverty and the absence of alternatives. ...
The death penalty: Justice for Whites?
The death penalty: Justice for Whites?:
| Their data shows that since 1976, 77 percent of homicide victims were white, 15 percent African-American, 6 percent Hispanic and 2 percent other. The three roundtable participants agreed racial bias influences death penalty convictions and focused on ... |  The Venture |
Jerzy Buzek condemns 'inhuman and unacceptable' death penalty
Jerzy Buzek condemns 'inhuman and unacceptable' death penalty:
| European Parliament president Jerzy Buzek used the opening of the Strasbourg plenary session on 26 September 2011 to stress the EU's opposition to the death penalty. It followed the execution of Troy Davis in the US state of Georgia, who was sentenced ... |  BBC News |
Native American Student Association hosts coffee, desert in I-House
Native American Student Association hosts coffee, desert in I-House: Students who are part of the Native American Student Association (NASA) hosted a Native American Coffee House in the Great Room in the International House last Tuesday evening. Graduate student in information sciences Jessica Torrance taught visitors a ...
Unemployment, poverty sow seeds of rebellion
Unemployment, poverty sow seeds of rebellion:
| As with all other indicators of economic and social well-being, the conditions of unemployment, especially chronic unemployment, increase with oppressed nationalities, specifically Black, Latino/a and Indigenous peoples. National oppression is a ... |  Workers World |
lunes, 26 de septiembre de 2011
Support for the death penalty for convicted murderers at a 20-year low
Support for the death penalty for convicted murderers at a 20-year low: According to Gallup, a slight majority of Americans supported the death penalty in 1936 and up through the 1950s, with public opinion dividing on the issue in the mid 1960s. In 1972 - when the US Supreme Court briefly ended capital punishment in the ...
USA: Catholic academics call for abolition of death penalty
USA: Catholic academics call for abolition of death penalty: As theologians, scholars, and social justice advocates who participate in the public discussion of Catholic theology, we protest the state-sanctioned killings of both of these men, and we call for the abolition of the death penalty in the US. ...
Johnny Depp shows off his undies in new Rum Diary poster
Johnny Depp shows off his undies in new Rum Diary poster: The actor appears scantily clad with boxers and nothing else as he stares at the Puerto Rican landscape. The Rum Diary centers on unsatisfied journalist Paul Kemp as he makes the leap from New York to Puerto Rico after tiring of the US and Eisenhower's ...
Santiago police use water cannons to quell protestors
Santiago police use water cannons to quell protestors: SANTIAGO, Chile (CBS) -- Police used water cannon on Sept. 26 against students protesting outside a city building in Santiago as part of ongoing protests to push for educational reform. The scene has been almost a weekly occurrence for months in ...
Mexico and US carry out prisoner exchange
Mexico and US carry out prisoner exchange: The Americans being held in Mexican prisons were turned over to US Federal Bureau of Prisons officials. The inmates were doing time in Mexican and US prisons for different crimes, including drug trafficking, organized crime, homicide and kidnapping, ...
Imprisoned and Banned for Life
Imprisoned and Banned for Life: Tucson, Arizona - Two Mexican nationals apprehended by Tucson, Arizona Border Patrol agents for attempting to illegally re-enter the United States were sentenced to prison on September 16. Jorge Arriega-Hernandez, a 39-year-old male from Zitácuaro, ...
Pasco Poverty Rates in Line with National Average
Pasco Poverty Rates in Line with National Average: Evidence of a rising poverty rate is found in Pasco County Schools. “When the downturn began in the state of Florida all of our poverty indicators were going up,” said Joanne Hurley, school board chairwoman. “More and more families are in need of ...
Americans convicted in Iran say they were hostages
Americans convicted in Iran say they were hostages: Fattal and Bauer were sentenced to eight years in prison last month after a trial held behind closed doors. Washington denied the group were spies and US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday they should never have been detained. ...
Twenty-five Percent of Very Young Children in America Are Living In Poverty
Twenty-five Percent of Very Young Children in America Are Living In Poverty:
| That's $944.50 per month. For a family of four (two adults, two children) the poverty level is $22113 per year or $1842.75 per month. In 2010, in California, the median housing cost (rent, utilities and garbage and trash) was $1163 per month. ... |  OpEdNews |
Puerto Rico man gets 198 years in torch attack
Puerto Rico man gets 198 years in torch attack
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A man in Puerto Rico who set fire to his family's New Year's Day gathering has been sentenced to 198 years in prison for killing six people. A judge in the US island territory sentenced Justino Sanchez Diaz on charges that ...
Chile's copper market share seen at risk
Chile's copper market share seen at risk
SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's global leadership in copper production and export market share is being put at risk by uncertainties over the reliability of the national power grid, which collapsed last weekend in the worst outage since the ...
European debt: Argentina's crisis was far simpler
European debt: Argentina's crisis was far simpler: With poverty rates in excess of 50 per cent, how the default affected foreigners was not a top priority. The bulk of the default affected Argentine financial institutions, with European retail investors being the largest foreign group to be impacted. ...
Europe exports ethylene to Venezuela on faltering local demand
Europe exports ethylene to Venezuela on faltering local demand: Shipping reports showed two cargoes fixed from Europe to Venezuela. A 4.5kt cargo for 20-25 September loading was fixed from Italy and a 5kt cargo end September loading was fixed from ARA. Sources pegged FOB prices at Eur900-930/mt, but this could not ...
Recession drove up poverty rates in most states
Recession drove up poverty rates in most states:
| Those increases helped push up poverty rates almost universally across the country. The rates increased in 46 states and the District of Columbia and remained unchanged in four states. The largest rises were in Nevada and Florida. ... |  Reuters |
TD Bank Honored for Anti-poverty Efforts in New Jersey
TD Bank Honored for Anti-poverty Efforts in New Jersey:
| By Joanne K. Fagan TD Bank, Rapid Pump & Meter Service Co., Inc. and Machinery Services Corp. support Eva's Village, the most comprehensive anti-poverty organization in New Jersey, as major sponsors of 2011 "Building For Hope" Annual Benefit Gala. ... |  NJ.com |
Deere to build tractor factory in Argentina-source
Deere to build tractor factory in Argentina-source: BUENOS AIRES - Deere & Co (DE.N), the world's biggest producer of farm equipment, plans to build a factory to make tractors and harvesters in Argentina, a top global grains supplier, a government source said on Monday. ...
Nonprofit plants seed for future US-Cuba relations
Nonprofit plants seed for future US-Cuba relations
About 1.1 million land lines and 1.1 million cell phones exist in Cuba for a population of more than 11 million, according to the Cuban government. Internet access is limited, and the government controls most other forms of communication. ...
Only planet
Only planet: "UN figures show that 25 developing countries, including Iran, Cuba and North Korea, are already at or below replacement-level fertility." We're passing one of those nostalgia-infused candy shops when I spot him. At seven, he's about the same age and ...
Revenge or justice?
Revenge or justice?: The political and judicial aspects of the existence of capital punishment in the US are chilling. Due to the popularity of the death penalty in the US, judges cannot be elected unless they are strong advocates of it. The United States clearly loses ...
Texas Ranks Third in Nation's Hispanic College Enrollments
Texas Ranks Third in Nation's Hispanic College Enrollments: Washington, DC – Texas institutions rank after California and Puerto Rico among colleges enrolling the highest proportion of Latino undergraduates. The finding comes from Excelencia in Education, of Washington, DC Their report shows that, out of nearly ...
3 Die in violent weekend in Mexican border state
3 Die in violent weekend in Mexican border state: Ciudad Juarez – At least three people, including a police officer and a prison guard, were gunned down over the weekend in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, officials said. Gunmen traveling in at least two vehicles killed a Ciudad Juarez ...
We Need to Reduce New York City's Growing Poverty Rate
We Need to Reduce New York City's Growing Poverty Rate: Sadly, the persistence of poverty in New York is far from unique. Roberts notes that despite this increase, "New York still had a smaller proportion of poor people than many other major cities, including Miami, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis, ...
Report: higher smog risk for US Latinos
Report: higher smog risk for US Latinos: Poverty appears to be driving much of the increased risk, according to the report's authors, who included the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Latino Coalition on Climate Change, the Center for American Progress and the National Wildlife ...
Argentine opposition leader confident of winning presidential elections
Argentine opposition leader confident of winning presidential elections: ... the pro-life movement, but he believes that women seeking an abortion should not be penalized. He also said much more must be done to reduce poverty in Argentina. "Argentina can become so much better than what we are seeing today," said Binner.
Great Recession plunges 5.7 Million Californians into poverty
Great Recession plunges 5.7 Million Californians into poverty: The drop in income exceeded 10.0 percent in 6 states (Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, and Nevada). Last year, 15,8 percent of all Californians lived in poverty. Before the Great Recession, in 2007 it was 12.4 percent. ...
domingo, 25 de septiembre de 2011
Native American Pow Wow Attracts Thousands
Native American Pow Wow Attracts Thousands: Thousands of people, including Native Americans from all over the country, are gathering in Cabazon this weekend for the Morongo Band of Mission Indians' annual "Thunder and Lightning Pow Wow." "This is the gathering of many tribes throughout the ...
Mining companies will have to sell all gold extracted to Venezuelan government ...
Mining companies will have to sell all gold extracted to Venezuelan government ...
By AP, CARACAS, Venezuela — A new law regulating gold mining in Venezuela took effect Monday and will require mining companies to sell all the gold they extract to the government. The decree, which was signed by President Hugo Chavez last month, ...
Despite Violence - Many Mexican Police Still Paid Low Wages, Report Says
Despite Violence - Many Mexican Police Still Paid Low Wages, Report Says
(AP Photo/Felix Marquez) They are fighting a violent drug war - but a new government report released Sunday shows many Mexican police officers still earn $350 per month or less, despite reform efforts aimed at increasing wages and decreasing corruption ...
Chavez audio recording seeks to dispel rumors about his health
Chavez audio recording seeks to dispel rumors about his health: "They keep speculating without any scientific basis," he said last August after returning from treatment in Cuba. In June, Chavez announced that doctors had removed a cancerous tumor from his body, but has not specified what type of cancer he has. ...
US hikers: "We were hostages"
US hikers: "We were hostages": (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) NEW YORK - "After 781 days in prison, Shane and I are now free men." Surrounded by relatives and loved ones, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer spoke to an audience of press in New York City, just days after being released ...
Power blackout hits Chile, halts copper mines
Power blackout hits Chile, halts copper mines: By Moises Avila and Simon Gardner SANTIAGO, Sept 24 (Reuters) - A massive power blackout paralyzed crucial copper mines in Chile on Saturday and darkened vast swaths of the country including the capital Santiago before energy was largely restored, ...
Pro-regime Cubans block rights activists in march
Pro-regime Cubans block rights activists in march: About 300 activists backing Cuba's Communist government shouted down 35 relatives of political prisoners, during a protest in Havana on Saturday. The pro-regime crowd massed outside the home of "Ladies in White" leader Laura Pollan and blocked members ...
Violent Protests Threaten Colombia's Oil Boom
Violent Protests Threaten Colombia's Oil Boom: While petrodollars and huge growth in the mining sector have helped fuel Colombia's robust economic growth over the past five years, many towns and villages around production sites remain mired in poverty. One example is the oil-rich state of Arauca, ...
Mexico: Woman Decapitated for Blog Post
Mexico: Woman Decapitated for Blog Post:
| The two murders were the first time that bloggers were seriously targeted by drug cartels, and could be the start of a deadly new trend. Blogs that report on Mexico's drug war have been threatened in the past, but until this month none have been ... |  International Business Times |
Death Penalty « YDA – Young Democrats of America
Death Penalty « YDA – Young Democrats of America: The death penalty creates more victims, disproportionately affects the poor, mentally ill and minorities, and has not been shown to be a determent to crime. ...
Tehran, Caracas ink economic cooperation deals
Tehran, Caracas ink economic cooperation deals: TEHRAN – The seventh Iran-Venezuela joint economic committee meeting wrapped up in Venezuela's capital city of Caracas with signing cooperation deals to give a boost to bilateral economic ties. The deals were inked in the fields of agriculture, ...
UN proposes rural reform in Colombia to fight unequality, poverty and violence
UN proposes rural reform in Colombia to fight unequality, poverty and violence
Colombia needs a drastic rural reform if the country wants to further develop, decrease its high inequality rate and diminish the country's violence, the United Nations says. According to the latest report by the United Nations Development Programme, ...
Cuba: Breaking corporate power allows sustainable development
Cuba: Breaking corporate power allows sustainable development:
| By Marce Cameron Cuba is a world leader in ecologically sustainable practices. It is the only country to have begun the large-scale transition from conventional farming, which is heavily dependent on fossil fuels, to a new agricultural paradigm known ... |  Green Left Weekly |
Entrepreneurs Emerge As Cuba Loosens Control : NPR
Entrepreneurs Emerge As Cuba Loosens Control : NPR: In communist Cuba, thousands of small private businesses have cropped up since the government eased its control of the economy. But entrepreneurs still face ...
Republicans, Democrats working for Hispanic votes
Republicans, Democrats working for Hispanic votes: Employment information is listed in both Spanish and English at the Nevada Job Connect center in North Las Vegas. Unemployment is an issue that both the Democratic and Republican parties are using to target Hispanic voters. ...
Prison realignment plan could result in rehabilitation or historic crime rates
Prison realignment plan could result in rehabilitation or historic crime rates: Among them were cases involving: the possession of assault weapons; drug traffickers associated with Mexican cartels; a unlicensed physician performing abortions on non-English speaking women for cash; and identity thieves who stole $6.5 million from ...
Perry Is Right: There Is a Texas Model for Fixing Social Security ...
Perry Is Right: There Is a Texas Model for Fixing Social Security ...: To highlight the problems facing Social Security, Texas Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is pointing to three Texas counties that decades ...
Growing poverty haunts nation, DeKalb
Growing poverty haunts nation, DeKalb: Consequently, the state placed high on the bureau's 2010 poverty index. Only two states (Mississippi and Louisiana) and the District of Columbia had a higher poverty rate than Georgia. While the bureau has not yet reported 2010 poverty figures at the ...
Growth is here; now create jobs
Growth is here; now create jobs: And the Louisiana Budget Project noted last week that the recent Census Bureau report on US poverty in 2010 showed that the number of people living in Lafayette-St. Martin homes with incomes below the federal poverty line rose to 17 percent in 2010 ...
US Census Numbers: 13232 Cowetans live below poverty line
US Census Numbers: 13232 Cowetans live below poverty line: The federal government defines the poverty level as income of $22314 for a family of four, and $11139 for a single person. The only states with higher poverty rates in 2010 were Louisiana and Mississippi. Nationally, 15.1 percent of Americans were ...
Poverty-Stricken Louisiana Congressperson Forced to Feed Family ...
Poverty-Stricken Louisiana Congressperson Forced to Feed Family ...
By now, I'm sure you've heard about Barack Obama's newly proposed Buffet Rule, a plan to undermine the creation of American jobs by forcing millionaires to.
Louisiana group wants to block immigrant wage increase
Louisiana group wants to block immigrant wage increase: Mary Bauer, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center which does work on behalf of immigrants, said the complex rules govern wages paid for immigrants at various skill levels. In a news release, rules opponents say they will ultimately hurt the ...
Latinos Feel the Pain of Attacks on Clean Air and are Ready to Act
Latinos Feel the Pain of Attacks on Clean Air and are Ready to Act:
| The aggravating factor for Latinos is that, in addition to living in heavily polluted areas, a lack of adequate insurance coverage, high unemployment and a high number of workers working outdoors, make the impacts even greater. ... |  Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) |
A low in jobs, mobility, marriage for young adults
A low in jobs, mobility, marriage for young adults
Nationwide, employment among young adults 16-29 stood at 55.3 percent, down from 67.3 percent in 2000 and the lowest since the end of World War II. Young males who lacked a college degree — typically black and Hispanic — were most likely to lose jobs ...
Growing Green Jobs in America's Urban Centers
Growing Green Jobs in America's Urban Centers:
| National unemployment rates hover at 9.2 percent. The rate for African Americans is nearly twice that and the Latino unemployment rate is 11.3 percent. Unemployment in the construction industry, which represents disproportionately large numbers of ... |  Center For American Progress |
viernes, 23 de septiembre de 2011
Death penalty discussed in Canada after U.S. executes third person this week
Death penalty discussed in Canada after U.S. executes third person this week
Amnesty International condemned Georgia's justice system launched an online petition to help overturn the death penalty in the US "While a majority of the world – more than 65 per cent of all countries – has abolished the death penalty in law or ...
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