Health care issues: Expanded Medicaid EligibilityOctober 2nd, 2009 Health care issues: Expanded Medicaid EligibilityA look at key issues in the health care debate:
THE ISSUE: Should Medicaid be expanded to cover more people?
THE POLITICS: Proposals in both the Senate and the House support some form of expansion of the federal-state insurance program for the poor. Who pays for Medicaid's expansion is a sticking point.
Smugglers using kids as 'carriers' on Indo-Nepal borderSeptember 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - Smugglers active along the porous Indo-Nepal border are now using children, as 'carriers' to smuggle goods like sugar and tobacco. Hundreds of children, in the age group of six to years, are being hired by the mafia of smugglers to carry out this illegal trade along the Sunauli check point of Uttar Pradesh.
Official rates of US poverty vs. alternative approachSeptember 4th, 2009 Official rates of poverty vs. alternative approachA look at 2007 poverty rates, the latest available, under the official government measure and an alternative National Academy of Sciences approach that is gaining favor in cities and has support in the Obama administration.
Numbers of poor, uninsured likely rising; more than 38.8 million believed to be in povertyAugust 19th, 2009 Numbers of poor, uninsured projected to increaseWASHINGTON — The ranks of poor and uninsured Americans are likely increasing — with more than 38.8 million believed to be in poverty. Rebecca Blank, the Commerce Department's undersecretary of economic affairs, spoke to The Associated Press in advance of next month's closely watched release of 2008 census data.
Pope calls Argentina's poverty a 'scandal'; Kirchner acknowledges huge jumpAugust 7th, 2009 Argentine faithful pray for jobs as poverty soarsBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Now even the Pope says Argentina's sharp rise in poverty is a "scandal," and the government has been forced to agree, with former president Nestor Kirchner offering new poverty numbers that would represent a 50 percent rise this year alone. Pope Benedict XVI's declaration came as thousands lined up to offer prayers Friday to Saint Cayetano, the patron of jobs and unemployed people.
Indians get hot over Scottish bid to patent Chicken Tikka MasalaAugust 5th, 2009 LONDON - An attempt by a Pakistani-born British MP to patent the Chicken Tikka Masala as a dish of Scottish origin has fallen foul of Indian chefs and food experts. Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar has tabled an Early Day Motion in Britain's lower house of parliament claiming the Chicken Tikka Masala - once crowned Britain's national dish - originated in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
Three-day Shahjahan Urs ends peacefully in AgraJuly 22nd, 2009 AGRA - Despite fears of sectarian differences and confusion, officials heaved a sigh of relief as the three-day 354th Urs, death anniversary, of Mughal emperor Shahjahan ended peacefully here with a record number of 60,000 visitors entering the Taj Mahal for free. The urs of the Mughal emperor came to an end Tuesday evening.
Southern Poverty Law Center asks Congress to investigate troops using white-supremacist siteJuly 10th, 2009 Congress asked to investigate racism in militaryWASHINGTON — One of the country's main monitors of hate groups is asking Congress to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding service members on a social networking Web site advertised as being for whites only. Morris Dees, the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, says researchers have identified 40 personal profiles of people who list the military as their occupation on the Web site New Saxon.
Obama: Wealthy nations have moral obligation, national security interest in fighting povertyJuly 10th, 2009 Obama: Wealthy countries should help fight povertyL'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama says wealthy countries have a moral obligation to fight poverty and hunger around the world. He says there are national security reasons for these nations to help boost food supplies, too.
Relief for emperor's descendent in government handsJuly 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - State-run Coal India Ltd (CIL) has asked an NGO, which approached it for providing a job to a descendent of India's last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, to approach the central government for suitable relief. In a statement Wednesday, the central public sector undertaking said: "A Delhi-based NGO, Bismillah, approached the chairman of Coal India Ltd for employment of daughter of Sultana Begum, descendent of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.
Lawyer says ex-NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer met regularly with escorts for 18 months before quittingJune 1st, 2009 Lawyer: NY Gov. Spitzer met often with prostitutesNEW YORK — A lawyer for a former escort service employee who arranged meetings with high-priced prostitutes says his client revealed former New York Gov.
Impoverished Mughal royal descendant gets a helping handMay 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The great granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar Sultana Begum, who now lives in a slum in West Bengal, is a little relieved. She now has the funds to perform get her daughter married, thanks to two journalists.
ADB triples capital to $165B to respond to crisis, boost poverty reduction effortsApril 30th, 2009 ADB triples capital to $165B to respond to crisisMANILA, Philippines — The Asian Development Bank said Thursday it is tripling its capital to $165 billion to provide the resources needed to respond to the global economic crisis and push its long-term goal of cutting poverty in the region. The Manila-based bank's board of governors said an overwhelming majority of the ADB's 67 member countries voted to endorse the 200 percent increase to ADB's current $55 billion of capital.
World Bank: Financial meltdown is impeding efforts to attain UN goals to ease povertyApril 24th, 2009 World Bank: Globe bracing for more povertyWASHINGTON — The global economic crisis has stymied the international community's effort to halve extreme poverty by 2015 and meet other goals to reduce hunger, fight disease and get young children to school, the World Bank warned on Friday. A report released in conjunction with this week's meeting of the bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington said the financial meltdown is impeding efforts to achieve most of the eight U.N.
BSP goes it alone in Left-ruled West BengalApril 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), one of the formidable political forces that formed the Third Front along with Leftists at the centre, has not entered into any electoral tie-up with its allies in Left-ruled West Bengal. It will contest all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, BSP chief Mayawati said here at a political rally Tuesday.
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