Nearly a quarter of N.J. residents sink into poverty, study shows
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TRENTON — New Jersey may be among the richest states in the nation, but a record number of Garden State residents lived in poverty during 2010, according to a report scheduled to be released today. Nearly a quarter of the state’s population — more than 2 million residents — was considered poor, the annual survey by Legal Services of New Jersey found. About 150,000 people slipped into poverty in 2010, even though the great recession ended a year earlier, the report said. And experts say more recent unemployment numbers show that the trend of increasing poverty likely continued into this...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 06:13:35 AM
Pregnant mother hit with stun gun, claims excessive force
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A woman who is eight-months pregnant with her sixteenth child is claiming police brutality after she says Tampa officers used a stun gun on her. Tampa police arrested Angel Adams, 39, this week and charged her with battery on a law enforcement officer after a scuffle when police came to her home to talk to one of her sons. She says the stun gun endangered her life -- and the life of her unborn child. Adams, 39, first made headlines two years ago when she was evicted from her apartment, then moved into a small motel room with 12 of...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 06:13:35 AM
U.S. food stamps helped reduce poverty rate, government finds
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WASHINGTON - A study by the Agriculture Department has found that food stamps, one of the country's largest social safety net programs, reduced the poverty rate substantially during the recession. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, reduced the poverty rate nearly 8 percent in 2009, the most recent year included in the study, a significant impact for a social program whose effects often go unnoticed by policymakers. "SNAP plays a crucial, but often underappreciated, role in alleviating poverty," said Stacy Dean, an expert on the program with the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington-based research group that...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 06:13:35 AM
Toward the Conquest of World Poverty (growth not redistribution)
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Progress can often be defined as the stuff that happens while humanity is preoccupied with everything that is going wrong. On the surface, the first decade of the 21st century looks like an ugly parade of terrorism, war and economic convulsion. But in one important sense it stands as possibly the greatest decade in human history. And that's no accident. Among the most vicious enemies of human welfare is poverty. In a world plagued with limited resources, bad governments and unsound economic policies, it often appears to be an inescapable scourge. Most people paid no attention in 2000 when the...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 06:13:35 AM
PGW, others fight U.S. new-furnace rule
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With little fanfare, the U.S. Department of Energy enacted a rule last year that will require all new furnaces installed in 30 Northern states including Pennsylvania and New Jersey to be high-efficiency models. Who would object to such a noble effort to conserve energy? Philadelphia Gas Works, for one. The city-owned utility is among several parties that have challenged the Energy Department's rule, saying that some homeowners cannot afford to install costly high-efficiency heating systems and will opt for cheaper electric or kerosene heaters. They say the new rule, which will go into effect nationwide in May 2013, will have...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 06:13:35 AM
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