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In the grimmest accounting in 15 years, nearly 44 million recession-battered Americans were living beneath the poverty line last year, as families lost jobs and homes in record numbers. – The Globe and Mail

“Seventy percent of Filipinos subsist on a P42 daily budget.” — Manila Bulletin, Hannah L. Torregoza, 7 Sept. 2010

1. Medilinks A total of 925 million people are undernourished in 2010 compared with 1.023 billion last year, the [U.N.] Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a hunger report [.pdf], revealing a drop of 9.6 percent,” Agence France-Presse writes … Continue reading →