What does it take to make poverty an important news story? 24 Articles

by James Skye

"No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands." So wrote author Arthur H. Stainback. This truism resonates among us all from time to time, but it finds particular significa...read more

by John Graham

The world can never be a homogenous society neither being a man nor being a woman allows that. By the very essence of our being we are competitors and, therefore, by definition, there are winners and losers. The winners a...read more

by Birupakshya Dixit

Human beings are quite emotional by their nature. They show sympathy and concerns to poor people and in many parts of the globe, number of people try to help those are suffering. This character of human beings creates inte...read more

by Arabella Kelly

News stories get attention in the media when they involve the pain and suffering of humans. When there are natural disasters, for example, the hardest hit are those who are already experiencing the hardship of poverty. Tho...read more

by Jonathan Clayton

Why Isn't Poverty an Important News Story? Because it Dosen't Affect The Right People! After having read a few articles about this topic. It's obvious to me that there is a real misconception about poverty. Poverty is ...read more

by James Mockridge.

Technically, any poverty related issue should warrant the full attention of the world's media, but the present scale of the issue will usually determine whether a story will make headline news throughout the globe. The ...read more

by Kira Neel

Merriam-Webster's online dictionary defines the word important as "marked by or indicative of significant worth or consequence : valuable in content or relationship." Therefore, when asking what it takes to make poverty an...read more

by Ginger Betzer

Recent studies have shown the those who give most regularly to charities are not rich, or even upper middle class. Those who contribute most to helping others are those who have a familiarity with the struggles of life an...read more

by Carol Natoli

Discipline in the schools, and the elimination of school violence, so that children can concentrate and focus on schoolwork, and is imperative, generally speaking. In the inner cities, parent-education where responsiblity...read more

by Jennifer L. Thompson

What does it take to make poverty an important news story? In today's world, the common every day people who may be doing nothing more than living from hand to mouth, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck, may be over...read more

by Ollie Jonson

Poverty only seems to become an important news story when the powers-that-be decide it is an important issue. When the G8 countries decide to have a little get together and talk about rising fuel prices and the rise in foo...read more

by Anje Duckels

Well the short answer about poverty reaching the main stream is when it effects the wealthy. Across America people are losing their homes to foreclosure but many small time stories are disregarded, in part because of their...read more

by C. M. Erickson

"You will always have your poor." These words were spoken by Jesus Christ himself, a man who walked among the poor, healed their diseases, and reached out to those whom society shunned. If the Son of God has declared th...read more

by Christine D. Patterson

For years we have all seen the television commercials on "feed the children." It seems the actors are the only one's who get old in the commercials. With so much money we the people give out to charities, there should not ...read more

by Akram Saqib

Poverty that is the conglomerate of bad luck and worse circumstances is a main headline of the news magazines and journals. Poverty is a dragon that has many ugly facets.These varied shapes of this anathema are a source...read more

by Kirk Olivier

Its dinner time, the man of the house sits at the head of the table patiently waiting for his loving wife to hand him the pot roast. He dishes himself a fair sized portion and hands the plate onto his wife and down the li...read more

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by Tara Mulqueen

You're looking at it. Not me, but us and those we listen to, the stories we write and the documentaries we create. We call ourselves independent journalists, concerned citizens, members of a global community with a resp...read more

by Coy Bundy

I am poor and I am in poverty. Why does it seem as though the world has no regard for me or my children? I know that there are genuinely concerned people in the world but there is really nothing more or less they can do ...read more

by Ravi Embar

Technology is one of the individual links in a chain of actions that will enable the process to alleviate world poverty. The most important element is to have transparent, effective and accountable governance. In alm...read more

by Petra Newman

The reporter warned us the scenes we were about to see would be disturbing, yet millions watched with shocked fascination and horror at the macabre scene of hundreds and thousands of displaced people in refugee camps where...read more