"On Friday, the State of Nebraska will cut off an array of welfare assistance that has helped legal, noncitizen immigrants such as Mbuyi and her family make the transition from being non-English-speaking newcomers to taxpaying, working citizens." -Omaha World-Herald June 29, 2011
In 2010 Operation Others delivered food boxes to many immigrant families. Here is an article about a cut in aid for these families.
Click here to see the article: Legal Immigrants Lose Aid
Click here to read and article spotlighting Omaha's Sudanese Community and the Project Welcome Organization. (Each year Operation Others delivers food to many Sudanese families) Article about Project Welcome and Omaha's Sudanese Community
O.O.delivers food to 1,600 Omaha area families each December, and works to create awareness for the 1 in 8 Americans who sometimes do not have enough food to eat.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
OECD: Poverty On the Rise
In response to increasing family poverty, the OECD recommends that governments should: ensure that work pays for both parents, including through assistance with childcare costs; help families combine work and care commitments, through an integrated set of leave, care and workplace support for parents of young children; design parental leave systems that encourage more fathers to take and share leave and promote their engagement with homecare responsibilities; start investing in family policies during the early years and sustain investment throughout childhood; ensure high-quality childcare services are linked to improved cognitive development, especially for children from poor households. “More family-friendly workplaces, equal career prospects for men and women, and a better sharing of care responsibilities not only make economic sense, they are a moral and political imperative,” said Mr. Gurría.
Click the link to read the entire article as it appears in America Magazine online
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/signs.cfm?signid=706
Click the link to read the entire article as it appears in America Magazine online
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/signs.cfm?signid=706
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Hunger: Nicholas Kristof in Say, Niger
The mother, Miero Finiba, told us that she was eight months pregnant (confirmed by a health card) and had nothing at all to eat in the house (confirmed by her husband). She and her children had last eaten a day earlier, when neighbors — themselves impossibly poor — shared some of their food.
Ms. Finiba was also afflicted with a leg infection that looked gangrenous. That meant that if she didn’t starve, she might soon lose her leg — or, more realistically in a village with no medical clinic, simply die of the infection.
Her two small children, ages 5 and 2, would then be at great risk of dying without their mother to look after them. The father is blind, from a disease called river blindness, which is transmitted by black flies, and cannot cultivate the fields.
It was at that point in the conversation that Ms. Dave choked and teared up. “Is there anything we can do?” she asked.
Click here to read the entire story as it appears in the New York Times (June 25,2011)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26kristof.html?_r=1
Ms. Finiba was also afflicted with a leg infection that looked gangrenous. That meant that if she didn’t starve, she might soon lose her leg — or, more realistically in a village with no medical clinic, simply die of the infection.
Her two small children, ages 5 and 2, would then be at great risk of dying without their mother to look after them. The father is blind, from a disease called river blindness, which is transmitted by black flies, and cannot cultivate the fields.
It was at that point in the conversation that Ms. Dave choked and teared up. “Is there anything we can do?” she asked.
Click here to read the entire story as it appears in the New York Times (June 25,2011)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26kristof.html?_r=1
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