No wonder NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who's got a big negotiation with the players union coming up, played up the poverty theme during his Friday address to the media, despite the relative economic health of the league itself.
Even that poverty themed hotel in South Africa is creating jobs.
One modern poverty themed hotel in South Africa has managed to solve this problem by allowing guests to experience the authenticity of a stay in "the only Shanty Town in the world equipped with under-floor heating and wireless access!" These days you can experience poverty without even bothering to look down your nose at any real poor people.
If we don't have the will to do that, we can continue to stick our heads in the sand, blame the victim and allow this new "the problem is poverty" theme to propel us to disconnected and unwise solutions, like a separate but equal approach to educating poor kids.
Community defined indicators of poverty covered themes related to type of employment, educational attainment of children, food availability, physical appearance, housing conditions, asset ownership, health seeking behavior, social exclusion and marginalization.
Pushing back poverty The theme of this year's IPU assembly is pushing back the frontiers of poverty.
During a recent discussion, drugs, violence and poverty were running themes.
Even without all 189 titular heads, the day's program is running late; a few presidents overstayed their five-minute limit while touching on the summit's themes: poverty, the environment, education, ending AIDS.
--- Profiles in Equity: Better Practices for Women, Children and AIDS (pdf) Publication year: June 2011 Publisher: UNICEF Gender and poverty are the themes that underpin many of the determinants of inequity within the AIDS response – and are some of the most reliable determinants of inequity across many measures of health and development.
Endemic poverty is a theme that Guthrie would turn to full-bore in "House of Earth".
