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September 16, 2014

We’re Winning the War on Global Hunger

One of the most underreported stories of the last decade is about good news: we’re winning the struggle against chronic hunger around the globe. A new U.N. report estimates that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world has decreased by more than 100 million over the last decade, and 209 million lower than in 1990–92. Continue Reading...
September 16, 2014

A Lithuanian Mother’s Testimony of Survival

Recently I read Leave Your Tears in Moscow, a harrowing and ultimately triumphant account of Barbara Armonas’s time in a Soviet Siberian prison camp. Armonas, who passed away at the age of 99 in 2008, was separated from her American husband and daughter in Lithuania at the outbreak of World War II. Continue Reading...
September 15, 2014

The Poverty Problem is a Marriage Problem

If you’re out of work and can’t earn an income, it’s easy to slide down the economic ladder from working-poor to just plain poor. So it’s no surprise that the poverty rate in America has, since at least 1970, moved in sync with the unemployment rate. Continue Reading...
September 15, 2014

Can A Text Message Save a Human Trafficking Victim?

The Polaris Project is one of the most highly-respected human trafficking organizations in the nation. Based in Washington, D.C., the Polaris Project (named after the North Star that guided slaves to freedom in the 1800s) is home to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Continue Reading...