Tag: poor

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 15:23 UTC

  Religious leader attacks Brazilian ruling party for becoming consultants of big business

  

  Brazilian Dominican friar Frei Betto considered one of the promoters of the so called Liberation Theology attacked the ruling Brazilian Workers Party because instead of fostering links with social movements prefer to be cosy with big business and their leaders have become consultants of business people and bankers.

• Sunday, January 2nd 2011 - 23:35 UTC

  Latam social indexes improving but 180 million are still considered poor

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a record number of 170 projects in 2010 totaling an estimated 12.9 billion USD, as the IDB continues to boost its efforts to help Latin American and Caribbean combat poverty and inequality, and promote sustainable growth.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 04:27 UTC

  Record gap between the richest and poorest in the US, according to Census

  

  The income gap between the richest and poorest in United States grew last year to the widest amount on record as young adults — and children in particular — struggled to stay afloat in the recession.

• Thursday, July 22nd 2010 - 09:44 UTC

  Santiago de Chile shows strong divide between the rich and poor

  

  The Chilean national CASEN Survey revealed last week that even though poverty in the capital Santiago is below the national poverty rate of 15.1%, the city’s poverty levels grew from 10.6 to 11.5% in the last three years.