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Quoted: IT’S too bad so many people are falling into poverty at a time when it’s almost illegal to be poor. You won’t be arrested for shopping in a Dollar Store, but if you are truly, deeply, in-the-streets poor, you’re well advised not to engage in any of the biological necessities of life — like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering. City officials boast that there is nothing discriminatory about the ordinances that afflict the destitute, most of which go back to the dawn of gentrification in the ’80s and ’90s. “If you’re lying on a sidewalk, whether you’re homeless or a millionaire, you’re in violation of the ordinance,” a city attorney in St. Petersburg, Fla., said in June, echoing Anatole France’s immortal observation that “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges.”

This is an entry I posted today for International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. It includes pictures and commentary on China's new Tulou affordable housing prototypes, which are currently on display at the Cooper-Hewitt.

Quoted: While Ouroussoff praises its “graceful balancing act between historical and contemporary values,” some of his terms (such as monks' cells ...

Amen, Brother Bono.

Quoted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. financial crisis making global waves is no excuse for governments and companies to walk away from helping the world's poor, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and rocker Bono said on Wednesday.
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"It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger," the U2 lead singer told Clinton's fourth annual philanthropic summit in New York. "That's mad, that is mad."
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The Group of Eight wealthy nations vowed in 2005 to raise annual aid levels $50 billion by 2010, $25 billion of which was to go to Africa. But under current spending plans, the G8 will fall $40 billion short, according to a June report by the Africa Progress Panel set up to monitor implementation.

Okay, this is seriously effed up.

Quoted: The juxtaposition between poverty and growing wealth presents an unsavory dilemma for luxury goods makers jumping into India.

Poverty chic !

Quoted: A family of three squeezes onto a motorbike for their daily commute, the mother riding without a helmet and sidesaddle in the traditional Indian way — except that she has a Hermès Birkin bag (usually more than $10,000, if you can find one) prominently displayed on her wrist. Welcome to the new India — at least as Vogue sees it.