2022-05-20: News Headlines

JANET (2022-05-20). COVID-19, global warming, war can starve the world's poorest. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel May 19, 2022 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, two-thirds of the families in the 70 poorest countries, the ones that the U.N. classifies as low- or medium- income, had their incomes drop so drastically that adults reported that they skipped eating so their kids could eat. Sometimes the adult fasts lasted for a day or more. (UNICEF-World Bank, March 9) People living in the richest countries of the world, on the average, have had their savings increase during the same period, due to assistance from the governments like extended unemployment benefits or payroll protection plans. The world's rich…

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