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This website is about world poverty and its effects. The home page has a map of people dying all around the world because of hunger/hunger related causes.

This website shows deaths this hour, and sadly it is mostly kids ans women who die. I noticed none of the deaths are from America.

Well, this article tells you facts about poverty. It tells you organizations that help out this problem too. It told me that over 25,000 people die because of poverty and I was like, "OMGNOWAY!!"

It really mad me sad to see all of the faces on the map. It made me sad, but yet it mezmorized me to see all of the people that had died

I hated how the faces were showing up, but what made me sad was that most of them were in asia, africa, and a few were in south america. What i REALLY didn't like was at the bottom of the home page, it said the faces and the names were fake.

this article expains statistics and how although there is enough food for everybody, not everybody can afford it. About 25,000 people die every day of hunger,yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. its sad to see how many people are dying in just this hour.

I was really disturbed when I read that 25,000 people die each day of hunger or hunger related causes... I knew people died but I never thought that it would be that many...

Being in the situation we are, or at least the situation I am, I always feel very datatched rfom the world of poverty. But seeing the actual faces and coming to mental realization that these4 are people with families and storys was really an eye opener. good find.

oh my god, this article makes me soo depressed. but i don't understand how they could have the picture up of people who just died in that hour? unless i read it wrong

One person dies every 3 and a half seconds according to the United Nations. Children die more often than adults. The world has plenty of food to feed everyone but the problem is that people are trapped in severe poverty. They dont have the money to buy the food. If they never have food, they become week and sick causing them to not work and they get poorer. There are programs around the world the can help children buy food when they are at school so their families can save money.

It's sad just knowing how many people die from poverty, but seeing their faces makes it even worse!

I heard on NPR that surprisingly, more people are looking up to the richer people for help, than looking down on them and blaming them that they hoard a lot of money and that they should be at fault for the economy.

I could not believe that the war in I raq has killed as many people in five years as poverty killed in four days!

It's kind of sad how selfish and uncaring people are/can be. Once the amount of money between people is even, poverty wont be a problem. Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to change anytime soon...

It really amazed me how little they live on a day. They live on a dollar a day and I go the mall and buy $100 worth of clothes.

It Disturbied me to learn that about every min some where in the wolrd a women dies giving birth. It also shocked me that about 40% of the worlds population doesnt have bacis sanitary water.

A lot of the facts in this are pretty suprising, like that every 3.6 some one dies of starvation.

It was really disheartening to hear that over half the people in the world live on less then 2 dollars a day

It made me feel really bad when it said that six million kids die every year from malnutrition before their 5th birthday.

I could not believe that 800 million people every day go to bed hungry, and that 300 million of them are kids.

800 million people go to bed hungry every night! I don't even know what it feels like to be starved or to go to bed without food. I can't even begin to imagine what these people are going through.

Tara's right...it's hard to put yourself in somebody else's shoes when you are so used to having basic things, like food. But it's important to try.

The Paragrapsh that really caught my attention was the phone tittled "Big corperations make poor pay higher taxes" becuase it just seems crazy to me that you would tax the people who are the most likely not to be able to pay? not to mention the majority who would be buying the corperations product?

If i was hungry before i went to bed, i would just walk downstairs and get a snack. It's hard to imagine that these people do not have that, and that they are almost always hungry. I just can't even imagine that.

mr reed the world sucks te rich are paying incentives to government so they wont raise taxes on the rich. so where are they gonna get the money? middle and lower class people!

This article is very depressing, the way it's written. But, it does have very interesting facts. It's hard to believe that basically 1 in 6 people are living on less than a dollar a day. In our country, a dollar can barely buy you a burrito or a burger. Although some people may use the excuse that stuff costs less in other places, so what? In our country, the minimum wage is about $56 dollars a day, and a lot of people have other money saved up. It seems like so much, compared to the less than one dollar, but people are barely getting by on that. It's just not fair that a lot of people have a ton of money, but there are more people living on pratically no money.

This article is mainly about how poverty is caused and why

This site will tell about facts and causes of poverty. It really amazed me how most of humanity lives on just a few dollars a day.

This article contains the causes of poverty as well as possible solutions. This article aslo has many other arrticles within it about poverty. I was amazed at some of the statistics this article gave but also hopeful that the problem is being addressed and solutions are being thought of.

This website Starts with some poverty facts like that 1 out of 2 children live in poverty. Then it continues with an article. Almost Half the world lives on 2.50 a day. Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen. It also has some solutions to poverty.

This article had several subsections about things like major causes and poverty around the world. It had a lot of statistics about poverty that I didn't know before like the fact that less than 1% of what the world spends on military wepons was needed to put every child in schools by 2000 but id didn't happen, or that 1 out of 2 children live in poverty around the world. It was really sad.

Almost half of the people in the world live on $2.50 or less per day. 1 billion children are in poverty. Growing countries with growing economies put financial stress on people in poverty because things cost a lot of money to provide the government with money. I thought this was interesting learning about how poverty affects the world and how not much is being done for people in poverty.

Sometimes it isn't your fault for being in poverty. You may be born in poverty, and you may have not have a lot of money to begin with. But some people have addictions to drugs, alcohol, gambling etc.

This site gives reasons for poverty as well as data. This site is a compilation of a lot of articles on poverty through 2000.

this article has a lot of facts and statistics about poverty. It was really shocking to see that 80% of the world lives on less than $10 a day. and that Less than 1%of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000.

Wow, my gosh. I feel so bad for those people that can barely even stay alive because they can't afford food... I really can't imagine what it's like to feel like that D:

Many people are confused why people are getting into poverty. Here is some good explainations. This really helped me understand more.

i cant imagine that happeneding to me or let alone anybody else!!! i want to buy food for all people in poverty now!

This gives you facts of poverty around the world. 22,000 children die around the world thats sad for so many people kides because the cause the poverty. We need to stop this.

The article gives many facts about the world wide issue, poverty. Almost half the world - over 3 billion people - live on less than $2.50 a day. Ths also gives graphs and stats about the percent of people in the world at different poverty levels. It gives many other graphs and stats too but i found this one the most interesting.

wow 2.50 dollars? dang thats horrible. thats like lunch for us.. its pretty depressing that these people live like this. this topic just makes me really depressed..

This article talks about what causes poverty.

no really? sorry but really

This is about what the causes of poverty are and what people going through poverty have to live with every day. I was surprised that over 3 billion people have to live off of less that $3 a day considering how much things cost here. A school lunch for us is around there so that is like just eating one meal every day.

I think that the charts and graphs on this website were interesting. It's shocking that over 3 BILLION people around the world are living off of less than $3 a day.

that is sooooooo big and i agree with kayla! i cant belive that people are living off of 3$ a day! i could never do that! rhat is less than what we pay for lunch!

omg i did kno we were poor kinda ironic because we grow so much food!

I was supried when i found out that the top 10 poorest cities, three are in Ohio are Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo. I meen those are mentioned all the time for art shows and cool events and to think that they are poor?!! wow!

this article is about how 1in 5 Marion County residence went into poverty last year. and how bad the economy has effected Ohio

i agree with adele about the cool events. I drive though cinncinati a couple times a year and i see the big stadium plus i have family down there who are dintist so i never would have thought it would be one of the more poor cities in ohio. I also can't believe clevland because its up by lake errie and i travle there too and i would think they would have more job opertunities from working the ferries or working at cedier point.But i guess thats why its so shocking to me.

it terrible that all of this is happening in the U.S but also in our own state, and in the cities around us. it was sad that even though people had a job, they were living paycheck to paycheck. Sometimes jobs help you, but sometimes they don't. nice artical ryan.

I never really thought that ohio had alot of poverty! I was suprised that Cleveland, Cincinnati. and toledo are listed in the top 10 of poor cities. I am hoping that we can whip this country back into shape before eerything goes down!

this amazed me that no other state has more than one city that is in poverty. Coming from the state ohio, living in columbus, i had no idea toledo, cleveland, and cincinnati was in poverty.

This article is about how poverty in Ohio is growing really fast. I was pretty dang surprised at the numbers when the article told how fast poverty is growing. I think it's a really good 'cause there's a lot of good information!

This article really surprised me. I couldn't believe that Ohio has the most cities in poverty! I never really thought that our state was really poor, until I read this article.

I always thought Ohio didnt have a lot of poverty, but that is just becasue I'm protected from it, so i never see it. this is a huge eye opener because even working families in Ohio arent doing well financially.

It was shocking that Ohio has three of the poorest cities in all of America. That's like 1/3 of the top ten are where we live... Disturbing.

woah dude! I thought that we were kinda rich.... But I guess not o_O... nice article, I learned a lot!

I never knew Ohio was this bad. I thought Ohio was coming back but apparently not according to the stats.

I was very sad to read that Ohio is three of the poorest cities in all of America. It makes me feel to do something since I live around poverty. Very eye opening!

to be honest, it doesn't suprise me that Ohio has the top 3 poorest cities. Everyday I see people struggle.

I can believe that Ohio has the poorest cities, but yet it still suiprises me. Deep in your head you know that people are poor, but you don't want to believe it.

yeahh what rachel said. i mean even though i don't really see many people on the streets like you would in D.C. or chicago. but still it is very truee. :c

I never thought that poverty in Ohio was this bad. I guess I just hadn't opened up my eyes to the people who are struggling. To see that our home is riddled with hardship is not only sad, but it is a monumental weight on your mind.

This doesn't suprise me. I see people on the street and in food banks.

the highest number of poverty in 51 years? Wow the world really sucks today.

This is Crazy, In Marion The Salvation Army's food pantry served 1,020 This August. The number of people doubled from a year ago. This shows that more and more people need support, its sad

i agree with caroline. it seems like the world is getting more expensive how will we survive when we're older. the population is getting out of hands too.

It's scary to think that Ohio is has more poor people in this year than last year. Hopefully, we can get reduce poverty levels in Ohio again.

i can't believe the sitaution is so bad, and how WILL we survive? (that was supposed to be in italics) it doesn't make sense-if the world becomes poorer and poorer, then the rich become fewer and fewer, and eventually it's going to snowball and just get out of control

I like the quiz on this site. The facts and statistics were interesting too.

i know but its so sad the number of hungry people including kids (take the quiz)

I took the quiz and missed questions 9. good article Kristen

I was so sad when i found out that in 2009, 15.5 million (20.7 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty. Just imagen there could be some in are class.

it was sad that throughout the years the percent tile has increased but it is a good thing that some of the numbers are going down aswell. that means people are getting better with their life. :D but its still veeery sad that people have to live like this.

All the statistics started to scare me. With all of the percentages and numbers, and with them RISING< it just is kind of worrying me.

I can't believe 11% of all families are in poverty. That's about one in ten families. I know at least ten families... It's too bad that there is enough money and resources for everyone, but after preschool, everyone forgot how to share. Imagine how the world would be more serene if everyone had the same amount of money.

I was surprised to hear that 5.6 million people in the U.S. have used food pantries, that is a lot more than I thought.

i never knew how big of an impact food pantries had. i was surprised that 4.8% of people in the US had to go to a food pantry once...i thought only a few homeless people went there. and that 57% of people in poverty get reduced lunches in school...i could not imagine how embarassing that would be.

I really like how you can quiz yourself on poverty. I learned a lot from that. Some information was very surprising but at the same time very depressing/sad.

Woah. Holy crap, I didn't know that there was so much poverty in the world. when I read those statistics I was like O_O

"In 2009, 5.7 percent of households (6.8 million households) experienced very low food security." That could anyone you know. This tells what Mrs. Smith and what Mrs. Lanka was saying that you could know people that are in poverty but aren't aware.

Whoa. That was some high statistics. And that one about kids at the beginning , i was all "Awwwww thats so sad." :'(

I like how you can quiz yourslef over poverty. The stastics and facts are really eye opening/ interesting to learn about.

i got a hundred percent on the quiz! But it was really eye opening to find out that most people in poverty aren't in urban settings.

This is a great website. I love how it has all the statistics. It's just really sad to see how bad poverty has gotten over the years :^(

I was really surprised by how many people are in poverty and how fast it was rising.

All these stats iterally made my jaw drop. I'm sure everyone would agree that these are very weighted words.

This article tells the long-term effects of poverty, the different kinds of poverty, and how we can help stop it. I thought that this article was really helpful if you don't know much about poverty, or if you want to know how to help it. I think it's pretty sad that some people are born into poverty and they can't get the right education because of it.

I was shocked where it said, "At least 80% of humanitly lives on less than $10 a day". There's something wrong with humanity if this is all we have. This article gives a lot of surprising facts.

Some of the graphs really made me sad. There was $105 billion spent on alcoholic drinks and $400 billion spent on narcotics drugs, what really made me sad was that there was only $6 billion spent on BASIC education, and $9 billion spent on water sanitation throughout the world. It made me sad..

These are statistics about poverty. There are several graphs and charts that show how poverty effects different countries. Alot of the graphs are surprising and make me very sad. In 1998 more money was spent on Narcotics Drugs and Alcoholic Drinks than was spent on sanitation, basic education, and health (nutrition)

This article is about some of the long term effects that poverty can cause for children in poor families. I think that it is really sad that a child's potential can be limited so much by not having enough money.

I really like how this article goes into the mental aspects of children who live in poverty. It's interesting and sad to learn how many behavioral problems children can have when they grow up not having money.

i cant believe that almost 3 BILLION people are in poverty in the world. one of our friends could be in poverty and we dont even know it.

thats amazing that just one group has helped more than 31 million peolpe all over the world.

It's phenomenal that the nonprofit organization improved the lives of over 31 million people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the middle east.

i can't believe that 3 billion people live on 2$ of food everyday. That is half of the world.

I thought it was cool that this organization helped actually educate and train people to become farmers. It's one thing to give money to help a family in poverty, but eventually that money will run out. By training people to be farmers, they can then get a job and make a steady income to support their family on their own.

I thought this was a very good article to read! I liked how they helped these people by not only feeding them but teaching them, giving some health care and standing alongside families that need soulutions to problems. THat is alot of people that need help. THis program is doing a great job of helping those in need.

Poverty isn't just in other countries, it is in our country and our own state.

poverty is everywhere, not just in our country but all over the world

I can not believe 1.5 million people in ohio make less then $22,050 a year. Its so sad, to think that maybe they couldn't get food for their family or have a cozy house to go to at night.

there was a great family in ohio, then one day everything changed and turned in a different direction. one night the father looses his job, and then that once great family became under the level of poverty. they need help!

This article form the Columbus Dispatch is talking about how Ohio's population has increased since 2002 by 1.2 percent while the people living in poverty has grown 41.7%. I was really surprised at how many people live in poverty in our state. I think That This increase had to do with so many job losses in ohio

yes but its in our state too. some of us don't realize. probably some of us thought it was in like africa at first.

I know there is poverty everywhere, but never thought there was so much in Ohio.

Jeez, I'm almost 16 years-old, and knowing that I might not get a good paying sulks, and knowing that Ohio is going into poverty makes it even more worse! I wonder what it will be like in 2015, or 2020?

This is an article about rising poverty in Ohio. This was really shocking that poverty is really becoming a problem in Ohio.

This article in the Columbus Dispatch gives statistics and info about the poverty rate in Ohio. Acording to the article, 1.5 million people live in Ohio, and 13.7% of them live in poverty. This shocks me because I've never really seen or heard of people living in Ohio being in poverty.

Yea like my mom works for Marion City school and works with special needs kids with adhd learning disabilites and most of the famileis in Marion Live in Poverty. It just makes me sad.

This is a really, really interesting article. I had no clue that there was so much poverty in Ohio. You just sort of always think it's somewhere else, not in your own city.

Gives an overview of poverty statistics in Ohio. It's surprising that the number of people living in poverty has grown by 40% as well as a little disturbing.

Extremely eye opening. i thought the same thing as a lot of people that Columbus was pretty well off and wealthy... apperantly not.

This article was posted on January 22, 2010, just one year ago. In this article you will find suprising statstics, showing the hgh rate of poverty in our own home state. The unemployment rate has soared in the past few years, and more Ohioans are finding it hard to cope. This article almost made me sick to my stomach, seeing that so many people are living in poverty, and that I was totoally oblivious to it. I felt guilty in a sense, since I have not even NOTICED that there was such a problem with poverty. It was very informational, as well as somewhat recent.

This article literally comes close to home. Everybody thinks that Columbus and the suburbs of it are really rich, but the statistics proved me wrong.. And the fact that we've gone nine months now with "double digit unemployment" is too bad. Everybody deserves to be supported. If our society makes money so important for life, why can't they provide jobs? Ridiculous...

I like this article because it shows that poverty isnt just in africa, but its in the us to.

I thought that this article contained many good statistics. The one about how the population living in Ohio has grown by 41 percent since 2002 was very fascinating and sad to hear. That is a huge change.

this gives information about the poverty levels in ohio and gives the total household income of every year (22,000). they wern't joking at the food pantry. this is something that people really need to think about.

It really made me sad that over two and a half times as many families fall below EPI's family budget levels than below federal poverty lines. I can't imangine how it's like to live that way.

Its shocking how so many people in ohio are in poverty, when i don't SEE many.

woah. I really never see anyone living on the streets in Ohio.... I didn't really notice that our state is so poor o_o

Wow! Has it really gotten so bad that 1 in 4 familys struggle to put food on the table? I meen,i can't think about that because sometimes if i don't like whats on my plate then i throw it away and some people woule die for that.

The "Causes of Hunger in the US" article was super interesting. It made me realize that we have so much food in the US but if you don't have money to buy it, then you just can't buy it at all.

i was suprsed to see that 13% of people are living in poverty in the united states

I know Adele! When I don't like something on my plate, I just throw it away and not think about how much someone right then is struggling and starving.

its amazing that poverty hits so close to home

Its about when young kids are born into a family thats poor and it affects the stress hormones and its also about paul krugman talking about the change in poverty, through out the years.

I feel horrible for kids growing up in poverty. It's not their fault what family they are born into, but they still have to deal with it. This article tells about how growing up in poverty poisions your mind. You are an outcast, and are looked down upon. It messes with your homones and can damage your views of yourself and others. Because of this, a lot of kids are never able to get out of living in poverty, continuing the awful cycle.

I find it so sad that poverty is a cycle like that. Poverty stops you from being able to et good jobs and make enough money to get out of poverty.

I was suprised to hear that "American children born to parents in the bottom fourth of the income distribution have almost a 50 percent chance of staying there"

this website talks about the many different factors that can play in peoples lives that will lead to them being in poverty

i think poverty will eventually be bred out wether from the most poor starting to die out and it will make it easier to help the smaller less scattered groups or somebody acually finds a decent way to help them all

This article gives some basic causes of poverty and information on each of them. This article made me realize that it may not be the people's fault that they are struggling, but their environment plays a big part in it too.

This article is about the suspected reasons for poverty. It provides detailed explanations for each cause of poverty; Overpopulation, Global Distribution of Resources, Costs of Living, Inadequate Education and Employment, Enviromental Degradation, and others. Reading this article, I felt guilty because of the standars of living in the U.S. I felt that in America, we worry about which new car, or designer clothing to buy, when people in developing countries worry about having enough in their gardens to feed their families. Our standards of living seem so silly compared to the standards in poverty stricken countries.

I didn't know poverty was caused by so many things. This site is really informational too.

Yes, their are many causes of poverty, but more importantly the efects, like malnutrition, homelessnes, and much, much more! It's crazy!

I think that poverty in some places can be like a cycle, once someone gets into poverty, it is almost impossible to get out.

I agree Jake. I think that poverty is a never ending cycle, After reeading alot of these articles, I think the best solution would be to educate people so they can get their own jobs and make an income to end poverty.

i disagree with jake and tara. I think that poverty is not a never ending cycle, because if everyone heard about these people and we convinced them to donate 10-100$ every month or so, then we can end poverty!. Here is website where you can donate money: http://donate.worldvision.org/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?go=section&section=10324&xxwvNavItemId=0&

I like that the overnment is taking stops to help poverty, but I agree that it will not even come close to ending poverty.