4. To enter the Competition entrants must pick one of the issues (related to aspects of global poverty) listed on http://www.theguardian.com/journalismcompetition and write a feature in English, of no fewer than 650 words and no more than 1000 words on their chosen topic.
4. To enter the Competition entrants must pick one of the issues (related to aspects of global poverty) listed on theguardian.com/journalismcompetition and write a feature in English, of no fewer than 650 words and no more than 1000 words on their chosen topic.
Not only did Philadelphia escape the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty list of "mean cities" but just last month Mayor Michael Nutter announced that his city might be the first in the nation to eradicate homelessness.
Those goals include cutting extreme poverty -- listed then as the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day -- by half, ensuring universal primary-school education for all children, halting the AIDS pandemic and reducing the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by half, all by 2015.
The Heritage Foundation, for its part, issued its own poverty measure, listing the number of cars, televisions, VCRs, microwaves, phones and coffee makers to be found in the average poor household.
In a telling recent statistic, evangelicals who voted for John McCain listed poverty as 13th on a list of 14 priorities.
With average monthly salaries of $150 ,Serbs consistently list poverty and unemployment as their most pressing problems.
But young evangelicals list poverty, the environment and Darfur as their top concerns.Mr McCain may have thought he could win this election without young voters.
The social mobility and child poverty commission's list of indicators of success in improving social mobility for each life stage includes birth weight, results at key stage 2, GCSE and A-level, and participation in education or training between the ages of 18 and 24.
Transgender folks face high rates of suicide, homelessness, poverty and this list goes on, all based on their gender identity.
