Bread for the World Background Papers

Hambre y Pobreza en los Niños Latinos Inmigrantes

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500

En el año 2000, los Latinos se convirtieron en la minoría étnica más grande de los Estados Unidos. Hoy en día, el 16.3 por ciento de la población de los Estados Unidos es de origen Latino: es decir, más de 50 millones de personas. La creciente presencia de los Latinos es evidente en las escuelas, comunidades y lugares de trabajo.

Hunger and Poverty Among Latino Immigrant Children

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500

In 2000, Latinos became the largest ethnic minority in the United States. Today, 16.3 percent of the U.S. population is Latino—more than 50 million people. The growing Latino presence is increasingly evident in schools, communities, and workplaces.

Moreover, more than half of the U.S. population growth since 2000 has been among Latinos, due partly to immigration and partly to a higher birthrate. Thus, a higher percentage of U.S. children than of the total U.S. population is Latino: 22 percent. This percentage is expected to increase because the Latino population is younger than the U.S. average. Children who are U.S. citizens but have at least one parent who is an immigrant are now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population.

Better Foreign Assistance, Fewer Hungry People

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Better, more effective U.S. poverty-focused development assistance is critical to reducing hunger and poverty around the world.

Development and Migration in Mexico's Rural Communities

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Here’s a question conspicuous by its absence from most U.S. discussions of unauthorized or illegal immigration: Why do people risk their lives crossing the Mexican border, take jobs most Americans won’t do, and live away from their families—surrounded by an often unfamiliar language and culture? The answer isn’t complicated: inequality, hunger, and poverty in the communities immigrants leave behind.

The U.S. Budget: Myths and Realities

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Did your attention begin to wander as soon as you saw “U.S. Budget” in this headline?

Perhaps the most pervasive “myth” of all is that the issues and unfamiliar terms swirling around the budget make it nearly impossible to understand.

U.S. Foreign Aid: Focus on Poverty Bread for the World’s 2011 Offering of Letters

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Just a few hundred miles from the U.S. coast, people in Haiti are struggling to recover from longstanding poverty made worse by the devastating earthquake of January 2010. Halfway around the world in West Africa, Liberia is rebuilding farms, schools, and health clinics torn apart by two successive civil wars.

Our Common Interest: Ending Hunger and Malnutrition

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600

2011 is a time of opportunity to achieve lasting progress against global hunger and malnutrition. For the United States, it is a time of renewing our commitment to this objective and strengthening partnerships with countries that are eager to work together in this common interest.

The Millennium Development Goals: Stepping Up Efforts

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The U.N. Millennium Development Goals aim to improve the lives of extremely poor people around the world. How have governments fared in achieving them?

Safer Motherhood: Significant Progress on Maternal Mortality

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Global maternal mortality has fallen by about 40 percent since 1980. What is behind this good news, and how can we sustain progress?

The Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative: New Hope for Farmers

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The 2008 global crisis in food prices pushed the number of hungry people past the 1 billion mark.

Worldwide, it underlined the urgent need to invest more in agriculture for the longer term and in nutrition assistance for vulnerable people now.