Child Poverty in Colorado Rises Drasticly

The highest Rate Of Rising Child Poverty Was Measured In Colorado

The NYT article shows a study released by Colorado's Children's Campaign, which reveals that child wealth has dropped like nowhere else in the world.
"Most recent census data show that 180,000 children — 15.7 percent of the state total — were living in poverty in Colorado in 2006, a 73 percent increase since 2000." The suggested reasons for this are the rising number of single households in Canada, a shortage of jobs, an increase in Hispanics and a low rate of finished high school education “What the data is telling us is that we’re headed in the wrong direction in terms of taking care of our lower-income population,” the president of the Colorado Children’s Campaign, Megan Ferland, said. Politicians critisize that the states spend too less on the people. Canada is never thought of a country with a high rate of poverty, rather than one with a well structured government along with safety. But if nothing changes soon the poverty rate will start growing...

Discussion of Poverty

Leaders Meeting to Fight Poverty and inequity

The New York Times article talks about the summarization of huge African leaders like Nigeria and South Africa, to argue the current issue of poverty. They are discussing on how to spend the foreign investments and even earn more of them.
With this they want to fight corruption in election in politics, right abuses and poverty in Africa. They are aiming to "attract billions of dollars of foreign investment to the continent".
The article clearly states the disaffection and the willingness to change and improve in Africa.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E2DE1F31F93AA15756C0A9659C8B63&scp=3&sq=poverty%20in%20africa&st=cse

Worse Chances of High Education For the Poor

Universities like Boston, Cornell and Brown that have previously focused on getting the students who are accademically outstanding will now have to focus on bringing in more profit. "Many students, increasingly conscious of costs, are flocking to their state universities; at Binghamton University, part of the New York State university system, applications were up 50 percent this fall. But with this year’s state budget problems, tuition increases at public universities may be especially steep. Some public universities have already announced midyear tuition increases."As soon as next semester the wealthier people will have a better chance of getting in since they can afford the higher University charges which have to be paid by the students. This again shows the difference of education possibilities that are still existing in our world today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/education/08college.html?scp=5&sq=poor&st=cse

Affect of Organ Market on the poor

The article states that in the USA "poorer people are more willing to give organs than they are likely to receive them", since people who get donated organs in the U.S. nearly always have health insurance, while most of the people who give these organs do not. A market for organs would therefor be negative for the poor. Still an organ market would not only exploid the poor, but give them a chance to receive organs. Also it is suggested that this matter will not be changed much over time since "organ transplantation uses a “scarce resource that can only come from fellow human beings”...

Mistake in Calculating Poverty Rates

New Yorkers worser off than expected...
(from the article: "City Refines Formula to Measure Poverty Rate")

A new calculation of the poverty rate was released in New York, that is including more everyday costs (f.e. child care, clothing, housing). Regarding this, the poerty rate increases to 23% of the population the poverty rate of elderly from 1 of 5 to 1 of 3. Still the extreme poverty rate has declined little.
The new formula is said to be used soonly everywhere since it gives a more realistic view of the current living situations of the people. It is the start of a "national re-examination about the way poverty is gauged".