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Poverty/World Hunger
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David Walsh , WSWS
27 November 2008
The US Department of Agriculture will shortly release figures showing that a record number of Americans, some 30 million, now receive food stamps, benefits available to low- or no-income people. That total will surpass the previous record set in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in... » read this article
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Stefan Steinberg , WSWS
24 April 2008
A series of reports in the international media have drawn attention to the role of professional speculators and hedge funds in driving up the price of basic commoditiesin particular, foodstuffs. The sharp increase in food prices in recent months has led to protests and riots in a... » read this article
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Amy Goodman , AlterNet
Food riots are breaking out across the planet. We must re-examine corporate control of the food supply.
The rise in global food prices has sparked a number of protests in recent weeks, highlighting the worsening epidemic of global hunger. The World Bank estimates world food prices have risen 80 percent... » read this article
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Bill Van Auken , WSWS
Last weeks meetings in Washington of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Group of Seven were convened in the shadow of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While Wall Streets turmoil and the deepening credit crunch dominated discussions, leaders of the global... » read this article
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