http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/305/homeless-facts.html
A neat LA Times article about a new technology designed to improve upon the living conditions of the homeless.. kind of.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-edar10-2008dec10,0,5253031.story
Visit the Home of the EDAR for more info on that.
In other news, Dr. Helene Gayle offers Obama some advice: Fight Extreme Poverty!
http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/fight-extreme-poverty/article113161.html
Yet women and girls are disproportionately marginalized. Women work two-thirds of the world's working hours and produce half its food, yet earn only 10 percent of the world's income and own less than 1 percent of its property. Approximately 500,000 women die each year in childbirth—a number unchanged in more than 20 years—and almost all those deaths are due to preventable causes.
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