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The growth of cloud services for business has been a hot topic for years now, but 2012 was the year when the cloud went from market hype to mainstream deployment. Most organizations have now adopted a private cloud of some kind, but caution is preventing them from taking full advantage. Exploring the potential benefits of new tools is vital if IT departments hope to see real performance gains.
Recent Gartner research highlights the importance of digital technologies for CIOs in the coming year. Gartner's Mark McDonald described the problem succinctly, "IT needs new tools if it hopes to hunt for technology-intensive innovation and harvest raised business performance from transformed IT infrastructure, operations and applications. Without change, CIOs and IT consign themselves to tending a garden of legacy assets and responsibilities."
What Is the Problem?
As it stands we are seeing widespread adoption of private clouds that essentially act as virtualized infrastructure. That's undeniably useful, but it doesn't solve the underlying business problem which is how to accelerate the delivery of features. Features come from the application. If we really want to leverage the potential power of the private cloud then we should be working toward a setup that supports fast, cost-efficient and error-free changes to the application layer.
What we're talking about here is adding value by rolling out features internally and externally at a much quicker clip without jeopardizing the end quality. We need to go beyond infrastructure to private PaaS.
Why PaaS May Fall Short
There are quite a few PaaS solutions on the market, but many of them are not suitable for today's enterprise and there are a number of reasons for that. The majority of them run fully or mainly in the public cloud, which immediately raises security concerns. They tend to support a very limited subset of middleware and database solutions, so integration is difficult. Interoperability has not been given enough weight and that can lead to serious difficulties down the line. There's a real lack of mobility for an application deployed via a typical PaaS service right now. You may find your business locked into a cloud service platform provider.
A start-up might see the value in adopting one of these PaaS solutions because it allows them to avoid capital expenditure at the outset, but what if your business already has a large datacenter? Many enterprises will want the option to use their existing setup and they'll naturally shy away from becoming reliant on a particular vendor environment.
What Is the Goal?
What we are really looking for here is the ability to deliver the benefits of PaaS with your existing middleware environment. You need a solution that supports automated, efficient, error-free application updates. You need a system that supports auto-scaling of your runtime environment. You need a system that can deliver an end-to-end insight into your running applications and their configuration.
The aim is to free your business and your development team from the cost and complexity of managing the underlying hardware and software systems that allow you to deploy your applications. When a new feature request comes in or customer feedback leads development in a new direction, private PaaS should enable you to deliver faster than ever before and with fewer errors. An automation interface that is accessible for the team is infinitely more efficient, not to mention more cost-effective.
Working Towards Automation
Once you have a private PaaS it's important to ensure that your new features are rolled out onto the platform automatically if you want to leverage the maximum benefits from the system. Integration of your development tooling and test suites will enable your company to provide frequent, automated updates of incremental feature improvements that happen automatically.
The benefits are obvious both internally and externally. Not only can you automatically scale and manage your existing functionality as required, but you can also add new functionality without fear of introducing errors. It's easy to get a clear overview of your complete application state every step of the way.
If you can roll out new features and updates in this way then your development team can remain focused on what's important - improving the product and delivering value to its users.
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At Humboldt State University (HSU) in Arcata, Calif., students, faculty, and community groups decided to do something about this. These groups united to address hunger on their campus and campuses across the United States and created Food for Thought.
The program provides assistance to food-insecure students through a campus food cupboard, which opened in October. The cupboard stocks a variety of foods, including dried beans, canned goods, and spices, to provide students in need not just empty calories, but nutritious and balanced meals. The program also serves as a bridge by connecting students to more sustainable food and housing assistance such as CalFresh, California's state food assistance program.
The students and faculty members involved with Food for Thought know that addressing hunger means more than just providing emergency food. They are diving deeper, conducting research to better understand the scope and causes of college food insecurity. Even though colleges across the United States are increasingly aware of the problem, there are no comprehensive nationwide surveys of student hunger.
The results of initial HSU student-led research show that 1 in 3 HSU students say that they sometimes or often run out of food and have no additional money to purchase more, while 1 in 5 regularly skipped meals because of lack of money to purchase food.
Follow-up research led by HSU students and faculty is currently under way. Food for Thought plans to use this research to push for greater awareness and advocate to eliminate procedural hurdles that prevent students from receiving long-term food assistance.
Hunger is a health issue that affects not only physical health, but cognitive functions and academic performance. That is why Bread for the World consistently works to strengthen children's access to school meals and other child nutrition programs.
Bread plans to work diligently this year to ensure that Congress reauthorizes the child nutrition bill, which is set to expire this fall. In fact, this year's Offering of Letters focuses on the importance of nutrition among children, who are especially vulnerable to the effects of malnutrition during their early years of development.
Bread also protects funding for federal and state food assistance such as SNAP and advocates for a living wage and refundable tax credits, so adult students can continue their education without facing hunger and poverty.
Efforts like HSU's Food for Thought show that just a few concerned people can make progress toward ending hunger. In 2015, Bread invites you to learn about hunger in your community, get involved in local projects like Food for Thought, and join us in advocating for policies that eliminate barriers and increase opportunities for our neighbors struggling with hunger and poverty.
Alyssa Casey is a government relations coordinator at Bread for the World.
Posted by Bread on January 13, 2015 in Poverty, Solutions to U.S. Poverty, U.S. Hunger / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
For You Always Have the Poor With You
Outgoing Texas governor and potential presidential candidate Rick Perry was asked in a Dec. 9 Washington Post interview about the growing gap between rich and impoverished people in his state. The article on Perry's interview states, "(Texas) has had strong job growth over the past decade but also has lagged in services for the underprivileged." Perry's response: "Biblically, the poor are always going to be with us in some form or fashion."
Perry expressed an explanation that many Americans believe. He appears to be referencing a Bible passage in Mark 14:7: "For you always have the poor with you."
I celebrate that the Bible is accessible to everybody. However, it must be understood in context and not used out of context.
Jesus uttered the words recorded in Mark 14:7 in an exchange in which some were criticizing a woman who chose to anoint Jesus before his burial with what was probably one of her most precious possessions, an ointment of nard. She could have been saving this very expensive nard for her wedding. During biblical times, brides were traditionally anointed with this oil. Yet in this passage, we see that the woman chooses to use the oil as an offering to honor Jesus.
It is interesting to note that some in our modern times use Jesus' response to the criticism of this woman to make poverty seem like something inevitable—or even worse—to not make it a concern. Jesus praises the woman for her choice. His earthly ministry was about to end, and he was telling the disciples they would not have the opportunity to honor him in that fashion on earth again. Yet people living in poverty among us remain an opportunity to honor and serve God.
Maybe Jesus was referring to a sentiment expressed in Deuteronomy 15:11: "Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, 'Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.'"
If we take this passage in context, verses 7 to 11—or the whole chapter, for that matter—we can see that it addresses the priority of caring for people struggling with poverty. God did not want people to live in extreme poverty and want. The laws established by God in this passage and many others make provision for economic justice.
However, because of the sins of greed and disobedience to God's commandments, humanity experiences social and economic disparity. That should not be the case. Money and wealth should be tools with which we are given the power of choice to use for the welfare of all. The Bible does not discourage wealth but rather encourages us to use it as a tool for good works that reflect God's love.
The Bible should not be used out of context as a pretext for government officials or anyone else to rationalize the lack of action toward the end of hunger and poverty. In our nation, the most prosperous, most technologically advanced in the world, nearly 49 million Americans struggle to put food on the table, and 45 million live in poverty. One in five children are not sure where their next meal will come from. We cannot choose one Bible text, out of context, to ignore the plight of millions who do not have a fair choice for their nutrition, decent housing, education, health, living wages, and job opportunities.
By faith, at Bread for the World we believe that if the president and Congress can, in a bipartisan way, summon the political will to end hunger and extreme poverty, this desire can become a top priority in our national policies and a goal achievable by the year 2030.
Jose Garcia is a bishop in the Church of God of Prophecy and the director of the church relations department at Bread for the World.
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Posted by Bread on December 23, 2014 in Bible on Hunger, Faith, Poverty, Social Justice / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
More Action Needed to Fully Reform US Immigration System
A migrant worker picks tomatoes on David Mann's farm in Fort Blackmore, Va. Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World
By Jacob Chew
The House of Representatives last week passed the Executive Amnesty Prevention Act (H.R.5759). The law seeks to block President Barack Obama's recent immigration executive action that provides temporary relief from deportation to more than four million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Under the legislation, the executive branch would not have the authority to exempt undocumented persons from deportation or grant them legal status.
The vote is largely a symbolic protest since the Democratic-controlled Senate won't bring the legislation to the floor.
Congress' latest action to curtail the president's executive action is regrettable. Bread for the World's support of the president's action is not about partisan politics. Rather, it's about the millions of families who will have some respite from worry and have access to new opportunities to work their way out of poverty. The executive action also offers improvements to our harsh and out-of-date immigration system, and is a compassionate response consistent with our Christian faith which calls us to welcome immigrants and treat them with dignity.
Rather than threaten to reverse such potential gains, Congress should take immediate action to pass bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform legislation that would improve our current system, strengthen our economy, and keep families together.
Learn more about Bread's work on immigration. And urge your members of Congress to pass legislation that addresses the root causes of hunger, poverty, and violence that are driving unaccompanied children to flee their home countries.
Jacob Chew is a fall intern in the government relations department at Bread for the World.
Posted by Bread on December 12, 2014 in Immigration, Poverty / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
North Carolina: Fifth Hungriest State
In 2015, Congress will renew and improve the legislation that governs national child nutrition programs, including school and summer meals. (Bread for the World)
By Alyssa Casey
When the school bell rings on the last day of the school year, most children teem with excitement as their summer break begins. But for too many schoolchildren in the nation's fifth-hungriest state, that bell means not knowing where their next breakfast or lunch will come from for the next few months.
In Wilkesboro, N.C., the Samaritan Kitchen does what it can. It provides schoolchildren with backpacks of easy-to-prepare meals to take home on the weekends.
"I have a student in my classroom who was starving," an elementary teacher from Elkin wrote the Samaritan Kitchen. Reprinted in the Wilkes Journal-Patriot, the note continues, "He couldn't get enough to eat. We were trying to feed him all the extra food we could find. There was no food in his house."
Samaritan Kitchen's goal for 2013-2014 was to serve 800 children per week with backpack meals, but lack of funding kept them from reaching that goal.
Churches and charities across the United States are answering the call to feed the hungry, but they cannot do it alone. For every 20 bags of food assistance to feed hungry Americans, only 1 is provided by churches and charities. The bulk – 19 out of every 20 bags – come from federal nutrition programs. We need strong federal policies to protect and support these national nutrition programs.
More than 1 in 4 children in North Carolina live at risk of hunger and poverty. Of the 60 kids riding your child's school bus, more than 15 go to school with empty stomachs, counting down the hours until lunch, which may be their first – or only – meal of the day.
School meal programs are a key tool in fighting child hunger. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides a free or reduced-price lunch to low-income children in schools across the country. While the NSLP is able to reach many children while school is in session, weekends, holiday breaks, and summer months present a unique challenge to struggling parents who rely on school lunches to help feed their child.
In 2015, Congress will renew and improve the legislation that governs national child nutrition programs, including school and summer meals. These policies significantly affect North Carolina's state and local child nutrition programs. The North Carolina Senate race between incumbent Kay Hagan and state House Speaker Thom Tillis is too close to call. Whoever wins has the opportunity to bring the voice of North Carolina's children to Capitol Hill.
Next year, to coincide with Congress' consideration of the legislation that oversees child nutrition programs, Bread for the World's Offering of Letters will focus on this topic. Churches will be asked to communicate with Congress on renewing this legislation.
Whichever state you live in, ask your candidates what their plans are to increase access to food for hungry children. Look at how current members of Congress voted on hunger and poverty issues. Thank them for votes that combat hunger, or ask them to explain votes against policies to rid our country of hunger.
If we raise our voices and votes across the United States, we can end hunger in our lifetime.
View a state-by-state map of hunger and poverty rates in America.
Alyssa Casey is Bread for the World's government relations coordinator.
Posted by Rstephenson on October 29, 2014 in Elections, Poverty, Solutions to U.S. Poverty, U.S. Hunger / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
No Longer Homeless, but Still Left Hungry
A woman serves dinner at a soup kitchen. (Screen shot from A Place at the Table, courtesy of Participant Media)
by Donna Pususta Neste
One of the problems with hunger is that it's often hidden or invisible all together, so it can be easy to deny or ignore. Another social problem—homelessness—is more apparent, but often the two go together. Take away one, and you still might have the other.
During the winter season a few years ago, when I was working as the neighborhood ministries coordinator for an inner-city church, I was picking up one of the youth participants of our afterschool program from a shelter. By springtime, his family was able to rent an apartment in the same neighborhood in which they lived before they were homeless. I wanted to think of this as a success story. However, since his family moved out of the shelter, almost every time I picked him up, he complained of being hungry. The family solved the problem of their homelessness, only to encounter the new problem of not enough money to buy food after paying the rent.
One afternoon early into the summer program, the kids were working on an indoor project. This boy again complained of being hungry. I ran upstairs to a small kitchen used by the staff to retrieve a plastic bag containing 10 hardboiled eggs. They were given to me after one of the church's community meals, and I put them in the refrigerator for anyone to eat. I came back to the work area with the eggs along with some forgotten cinnamon buns. This little boy ate four eggs in a row and a few of the buns. I sent the rest of the food home with him. I used to drop him off last so that I could go into the church and find some food to send home. There was always something left over from a meeting or community meal.
On one of those days, I began to think that maybe he was just not liking what he was given to eat at home, but I responded to his complaints despite my misgivings. Before dropping him off I ran into the church and came back to the car with a to-go box with 15 hot dogs left over from the latest community meal. My feelings of being "played" immediately dissipated when I watched him tear into the box and quickly eat one of the hot dogs cold.
Even people like me who work or once worked close to the bone of poverty are sometimes in denial about hunger in the United States. It's hard to see the face of hunger in a nation that seems to parade affluence and well-being every place we go. If we can't see it, then perhaps others, like our legislators, might miss it as well. So that's why one thing we can do—those of us who are close to the problem or are aware of it because of our work or faith—is to speak up about it. By telling elected officials where hunger exists and how deep it is, we can make it visible. Make a point to speak to your current or potential members of Congress about hunger now—during their campaigns for office. Maybe their eyes will be opened to what is already there.
Donna Pususta Neste is a Bread for the World board member and former coordinator of Neighborhood Ministries in Minneapolis.
Posted by Rstephenson on October 22, 2014 in Poverty, U.S. Hunger / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
The Top Ten Hungriest and Poorest States
by Eric Mitchell
We need to move past the Great Recession of 2008. But for families that are still unable to regularly put food on the table, how can they? The recession caused the number of families at risk of hunger to increase by more than 30 percent! But because of anti-hunger programs like SNAP (formerly food stamps), we haven't seen that number go up any higher since then. Unfortunately, despite (slight) improvements, nearly 1 in 6 Americans (49 million) were still struggling to put food on the table in 2013.
In recent years, the 10 hungriest states (see chart below) have seen no relief. Since 2001, the percent of households struggling to access food has increased in all 10 of these states. The economy is improving but not fast enough for many Americans who are struggling to feed their families. In 2013, more than 45 million Americans still lived in poverty.
Statistics alone do not tell the full story. Hunger and poverty impacts the lives of children, older Americans, veterans, and the disabled especially hard. (See state fact sheets, which you can link to in the chart above.) In states with the highest rates of poverty and food insecurity, it's even worse. For example, in Mississippi, 24 percent of people live below the poverty line, including a staggering 1 in 3 children. In Arkansas, more than 1 in 5 Americans are at risk of hunger. People are hurting.
Americans At Risk of Hunger
Nearly 1 in 6 Americans (49 million) were still struggling to put food on the table in 2013.
You would think these staggeringly high numbers would propel these congressional delegations to do something, fueled by an outrage over the conditions of poverty and hunger in their own states. But that's not necessarily true. Many have actually voted for proposals that would have made conditions worse. Take this example: In 2013, 217 members of the House of Representatives voted to cut SNAP by nearly $40 billion. Fortunately, this proposal did not make it into through Congress. But if it had, 2 million people would have been kicked off of SNAP, and the number of families at risk of hunger in the 10 hungriest states would have gone up even further.
A job used to be a safeguard against poverty and empty stomachs. That's no longer true. People who receive SNAP also work. But people are working harder while earning less. Since 2009, most middle- and low-income workers have seen their wages go down. The bottom 60 percent of workers have seen their income decrease by 4 to 6 percent. Meanwhile, Congress has yet to pass legislation that raises the minimum wage. Such action would help lift many Americans out of poverty.
To truly end hunger in the United States, we must demand federal policies that boost our economy and ensure a strong safety-net for those in need. That's why our political leaders must make this a national priority. See how hunger and poverty are affecting the 10 hungriest and poorest states. Then, judge your member's commitment to ending hunger and poverty. See for yourself if their votes help or hurt those caught in a tough place.
10 Hungriest States
10 Highest Poverty States
(Links in the chart above are for fact sheets on those states produced by Bread for the World.)
Faith by itself is not enough. It is also important to take action. We do this by holding our elected officials accountable. Each member's vote counts. Maybe your representative cast a critical vote that blocked SNAP cuts, or maybe your member's votes are contributing to these startling statistics. Find out and take action. During this campaign season, remind congressional candidates that we need a Congress that is serious about ending hunger and poverty.
Posted by Bread on September 30, 2014 in Advocacy, Poverty, SNAP, U.S. Hunger / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Bread President David Beckmann Encouraged by Latest Trends in Hunger
Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, told radio host Tavis Smiley that he feels hopeful.
Encouraged by a recent trend with both political parties addressing poverty in public speeches and decreasing poverty rates, Beckman says a post-recession America is the perfect time to make ending hunger a top priority for lawmakers.
Poverty decreased slightly—by 0.5 percent—last year, according to data released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. It is the first time a decrease has been seen since 2006. The bureau announced that 14.5 percent of Americans lived in poverty in 2013. Additionally, child poverty declined for the first time since 2000, from 21.8 percent to 19.9 percent.
"It's just a start, but it is a change in the right direction," said Beckmann.
Beckmann made these remarks in an interview on Public Radio International's "The Tavis Smiley Show" last week.
Beckmann said reduced poverty rates are a result of more Americans returning to the labor market. Food insecurity continues to remain high in the United States – a reality Beckmann sees as unnecessary. He said there are two critical factors in reducing poverty: Economic growth and focused efforts. The United States is lacking a focused effort.
"The last president who made poverty one of his top priorities was Lyndon Johnson," says Beckmann. The Johnson administration and Congress worked together to cut poverty nearly in half from the mid-1960s through the 1970s.
To build a sustained political commitment that will reduce poverty in the United States, Beckmann emphasizes the importance of making hunger an election issue. Voters must pressure leaders to move from speeches to passing legislation that will end hunger. The elections provide an opportunity to reach out directly to lawmakers.
"We've got to elect people to Congress who are going to agree to work together and focus on opportunity for everybody," said Beckmann.
Smiley is already looking ahead to the next set of elections - the 2016 presidential elections. He said that he recently called for a debate exclusively on income inequality and poverty – something he has never seen in his lifetime.
"I second the motion," said Beckmann. "Usually in the presidential debates they never ask a question about the bottom 40-50 percent of the country."
Listen to Beckmann's interview on the "The Tavis Smiley Show" podcast here.
Robin Stephenson is the national lead for social media at Bread for the World and a senior regional organizer.
Posted by Rstephenson on September 22, 2014 in Advocacy, Elections, Hunger and the U.S. Budget, Poverty, Solutions to U.S. Poverty / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
The Poverty Rate State-By-State
By Robin Stephenson
A rising tide does not lift all boats —at least where poverty is concerned. Income gaps in America are widening. States are not experiencing economic recovery equally.
The Census Bureau followed Tuesday's report, which showed a slight decline nationally in the poverty rate for the first time since 2006, with today's state-by-state data. The national poverty rate is 14.5 percent, but five states still have rates over 20 percent. Mississippi tops the list with the highest poverty rate at 22.5 percent, followed closely by New Mexico, the District of Columbia, Arizona, and Kentucky.
The poverty rate should be more than a snapshot to lawmakers in Washington, D.C., and should encourage voters to make hunger an elections issue.
"The poverty numbers are encouraging," says Amelia Kegan, deputy director of government relations at Bread for the World. However, Kegan says a cut of two percentage points is not enough and that our call as Christians is to advocate for a world without poverty and hunger.
"The pace of this economic recovery is far too slow, particularly for those at the economic margins," Kegan continues. "It's time our elected leaders make ending hunger and poverty a top priority, and the midterm elections provide a prime opportunity for people of faith to demand this of candidates running for office."
The poverty rate is based on income. Although the cost of living varies geographically, the poverty threshold used by the Census Bureau does not. A family of four is classified as poor if their gross income is less than $23,830 last year, and for one person, the poverty threshold was $11,890.
The Census Bureau data comes on the heels of a recent report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on food insecurity – a term that describes households that do not have enough food in a given year. Not surprisingly, there is overlap between state food-insecurity and the poverty rate.
The ten states with the highest poverty rates:
- Mississippi, with a poverty rate of 22.5 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 21.1 percent.
- New Mexico, with a poverty rate of 21.7 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 13.2 percent.
- Arizona, with a poverty rate of 20.2 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 21.2 percent.
- Kentucky, with a poverty rate of 20 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 16.4 percent.
- Louisiana, with a poverty rate of 19.2 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 16.5 percent.
- North Carolina, with a poverty rate of 18.6 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 17.3 percent.
- Tennessee, with a poverty rate of 18.1 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 17.4 percent.
- Nevada, with a poverty rate of 17.4 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 16.2 percent.
- West Virginia, with a poverty rate of 17.3 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 14.4 percent.
- Arkansas, with a poverty rate of 17.1 percent and a food-insecurity rate of 21.2 percent.
Engage the candidates! Go to www.bread.org/elections to make hunger an issue in the elections!
Robin Stephenson is the national lead for social media and a senior reigonal organizer at Bread for the World.
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Posted by Rstephenson on September 18, 2014 in Hunger and the U.S. Budget, Poverty, Solutions to U.S. Poverty, U.S. Hunger / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Slight Decline in Poverty Rate, Still Millions Live Below Poverty Line
According to a Census Bureau report released today, child poverty declined for the first time since 2000, from 21.8 percent to 19.9 percent. (Todd Post)
The good news is we are making progress on poverty in America. However, the economic recovery is leaving too many Americans behind.
More than 45 million Americans—14.5 percent—lived below the poverty line in 2013, according to a Census Bureau report released today. Poverty decreased slightly, by 0.5 percent, for the first time since 2006. Additionally, child poverty declined for the first time since 2000, from 21.8 percent to 19.9 percent.
There is still more to do. The faithful must continue to advocate for even more progress against hunger and poverty, especially during an election year.
Poverty rates are still disproportionately high among Hispanics and African-Americans: 23.5 percent of Hispanics and 27.1 percent of African-Americans live below the poverty line.
Mothers like Jacqueline Christian, who try to make ends meet on minimum wage, still wait to feel the effects of the economic recovery. National Geographic told Christian's story in the article The New Faces of Hunger published last July.
Christian makes $7.25 an hour working full time as a home health aid in Houston, Texas. She and her two sons, who struggle to get enough to eat, were living in a homeless shelter at the time the article was published.
Recent gains in employment, with 2.8 million people returning to the labor market, have helped decrease poverty in America. Wages, however, continue to stagnate for those who have jobs. Low-income employment like Christian's doesn't pay a living wage.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, between 2009 and 2013 the top 5 percent of workers saw their wages rise by 1 percent while the bottom 60 percent saw hourly wages fall by 4-6 percent. Higher incomes among high-wage earners and corporations have mainly shown up in higher stock prices, and companies have been slow to invest in the real economy.
As the economy improves, our elected officials must craft policy to ensure that we don't leave large groups of Americans behind—people like Jacqueline Christian, who works full time but can't meet her family's basic needs.
Encouraged by progress and recent public discourse by both parties about ending hunger and poverty in America, Bread for the World's President David Beckmann says Congress should focus on employment and reducing income inequality.
"The best defense against hunger and poverty is reliable work," Beckmann said in a statement to the press today. "As the mid-term election draws near, we must vote for leaders who are committed to increasing job opportunities and pray that their actions are guided by compassion and justice so that we can continue to reduce hunger and poverty."
Thursday, the Census Bureau will release state-level data.
Posted by Rstephenson on September 16, 2014 in Elections, Poverty, Solutions to U.S. Poverty, U.S. Hunger, Unemployment / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Americans Struggling with Hunger Left Behind in Economic Recovery
By Alyssa Casey
The number of Americans struggling to put food on the table remains stubbornly high, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 2013, 14.3 percent of U.S. households experienced food insecurity. "Food insecure" households are those that have difficulty consistently providing enough food for all household members due to lack of resources.
The number of households at risk of hunger declined slightly from 14.9 percent in 2011, but those hit by the 2008 economic crisis have seen little relief. In 2007, 36.2 million Americans lived in food insecure households. In 2008, that number jumped to 49.1 – an increase of nearly 13 million Americans at risk of hunger. Five years later in 2013, the same number of Americans – 49.1 million – struggle to feed their families. While the country as a whole slowly recovers from the 2008 economic crisis, it appears that those struggling with hunger are being left behind.
More than 15.7 million – nearly a third – of Americans at risk of hunger are children. Households with children are more at risk of hunger than those without children. This risk increases even further when the household is headed by a single parent. Households headed by a single woman are among the hardest hit, with 34.4 percent of these households at risk of hunger – nearly 2 ½ times the national average.
When so many children and families wrestle with the threat of hunger year after year, it is inexcusable that elected officials address hunger so rarely.
The Momentum is Building
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty made alleviating hunger and poverty in the United States a top priority for the government. Incredible progress was made in the initial years of the War on Poverty, but eventually poverty and hunger were swept under the rug, and politicians largely stopped talking about the issue.
Recent years have seen momentum building around making hunger and poverty history:
- The economic recession drew attention to the prevalence of hunger in the United States.
- Filmmakers and the media are increasingly drawing attention to widespread hunger.
- The 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty kept the spotlight on hunger.
- Advocates like you told your elected officials that hunger matters.
- Prominent politicians on both sides of the aisle are talking about America's hunger and poverty problem and exchanging ideas for legislative solutions.
What Can You Do?
Keep this momentum going and make sure candidates know that you care about hunger.
As we near national elections in November, we have the opportunity to ask candidates to make ending hunger a national priority. You don't have to be a policy expert; simply telling your candidates you care about hunger and poverty lets them know they need to take action on these issues.
Ask your candidates what their plan is to address hunger. If a candidate is running for reelection, look at how they voted. Then tell them to vote for legislation that makes positive strides towards ending hunger, not legislation that cuts safety net programs and makes it harder for people to support their families.
At Bread for the World, we have your back! We are telling candidates across the country that Americans want to end hunger. If you do the same, we can use this momentum to make ending hunger a national priority once again. Let's make hunger an election issue!
Alyssa Casey is Bread for the World's government relations coordinator
Posted by Rstephenson on September 03, 2014 in Poverty, SNAP, Solutions to U.S. Poverty / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
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Perfect non-shimmery bronzing powder. I have used this product on and off for the past 10 years and love it. Perfect for everyday. Adds just the right amount of glow and definition. The little brush included is garbage (and thats where I put it) so I opt for a Trish McEvoy brush instead, but any quality bronzer brush should be fine. My only complaint is the sides of packaging - they are relatively high and make it hard to reach the product on the edges of the container (I always end up with a big hole in the center many months before I actually run out of the powder).5
I've tried the "use a darker powder than your natural shade" for bronzing, and it really just doesn't cut it. This lasts me forever and is super blendable (use brush appropriate for amount of coverage) even when I'm super pale. Used it since high school ;)
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I've been on the road to dressing better for a long while now and along the way I've come across an endless supply of guides to putting together a wardrobe. I've not once found one of these guides that could actually guide me to a better wardrobe that would work for me.
Despite many of these guides stating the fact that business casual has taken over from the suit they still centre the whole wardrobe around it. In most cases a suit is the very first item on their list. If a suit is essential to you you're shit outta luck. This guide isn't going to help you, much. If you wear a suit say 3 times a year to a couple of weddings or maybe a job interview then you're spending less than 1% of your year in it. It should not then even be considered in your 99% wardrobe. Deal with suits separately, lets get you a solid wardrobe first.
There is a lot to consider, from climate to culture and personal style to body type. My guide is less about telling you what you need and more about guiding you to finding what you need. No list of "essentials" or "must haves", you're buying for you, not some twat one the internet in a different country living a different lifestyle with a taste for Dom Pérignon.
Step 1. Inspiration.
Sign up to pinterest, evernote, tapiture or whatever "pinning" website you prefer and start pinning what you like. Focus on work first and what you would like to wear there. Make a board for work and one for more casual affairs if that works for you. Don't go overboard though. Aim for 5 outfits you think would look good on you at work. I picked some outfits from my "My Style" board that I thought would be good for my workplace and added them to a secret board.
Follow Dan Haneveer's board My Style on Pinterest.
Step 2. Analyse.
Let's take a look at the board you have created. Take a pen and paper and write down what you see. Shirts and their colours and the same for pants, sweaters and shoes. If your list is going to be fairly long tally how often you see individual pieces. 3x white shirts, 4x khakis? The higher the tally the more you need to get your hands on those items. I found that olive pants featured heavily in outfits I like, up until I went through this process though olive pants weren't really on my radar to buy, they ended being the first thing I purchased.
If you've pinned them, leave out "Grail" items in your analysis. You know that Coach leather jacket, I'll give you that it looks awesome but for the price you can fill out the rest of your wardrobe. Same for accessories like watches and jewellery. Try to make the biggest impact by getting tops and bottoms first and foremost.
Step 3. Buy.
After analysing your pins you'll have a list of items you need to buy to recreate the outfits you can see yourself wearing. You might even like to create another board with links to individual items that make up your outfits.
If something came up a lot maybe consider buying two of it. Everyone lives in different circumstances. Some of you could create this list and go out and buy the best of everything on it. Others will go and buy the one thing they like they most at the cheapest price. My philosophy is to buy the best you can afford, save and wait for sales. This exercise should not need to involve a credit card.
Hopefully this guide leads you to an individualised wardrobe that speaks of your own style and not the cookie cutter wardrobes you find on /r/malefashionadvice or mens mags.
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Monthly Archive for May, 2010
"Danger's afoot" indeed!
The pedestrians getting off the #13 New Scotland Avenue bus at the Key Bank, strolling across Washington Avenue… [Read More]
We Interrupt This Radio Silence…
He's from Brooklyn, and I'm from Binghamton. [Read More]
WRGB: The Only TV Station in the Nation
WRGB ran the full ending during the 11 pm news. [Read More]
Tracy Powell wins seat on Catskill school board
I've gotten to that age where I now know people in political office personally. [Read More]
Not Quite Radio Silence
Vote on Tuesday -that would be today – for library board, the library budget, the school budget…but not the school board. (Why is that?) [Read More]
Steel Jewelry
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We Can't Furlough the State Legislature — CAN WE?
maybe the Assembly and Senate can pass a bill lowering their OWN compensation by 20% during every week the budget is late. [Read More]
No Doubt about it
It would be like booing B.B. King while waiting for Eric Clapton. [Read More]
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Favor Smith ties for first at Lake Placid track — July 12, 1944
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The medical, the morbid and the madcap
July 3, 2015 The French and Russian revolutions to the contrary, all change is gradual. more »»
Favor Smith ties for first at Lake Placid track — July 12, 1944
July 4, 2015 What better way to report on the history of this region than to have access to old copies of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise? I am lucky to have been associated with the Enterprise in one manner or... more »»
Waterfalls provide respite from heavy rains
July 4, 2015 As a result of the season's off-and-on heavy rains, outdoor travelers have been forced to go without getting out, or they've simply learned to deal with the damp hand they've been dealt. more »»
'Deutschland 83'
July 2, 2015 "Who will win? You greedy capitalists, or we, the socialists, who work together for the collective good?" (Suffice it to say, spoilers lay ahead) These are the words of 23-year-old East German... more »»
Lilo was a vibrant local character
July 3, 2015 Lilo Levine would never cooperate with me on the story I wanted to write. more »»
3 great salads for your Fourth of July picnic
July 2, 2015 School's over. Summer has begun in the Adirondacks, and Independence Day is almost here. The holiday weekend means out-of-town guests for many, picnics and barbecues for most. more »»
Q&A with SBA Syracuse District Director Bernard J. Paprocki
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Get on your bikes and ride
June 18, 2015 Last week in Lake Placid, I was on the hunt for something decent to wear while riding my bike or jogging. It's time to blow the dust off those new year's resolutions. more »»
A late Father's Day remembrance
June 30, 2015 Father's Day has come and gone for this year, but if you were blessed by a father like mine, grateful recollections come often, and they don't require an official day. more »»
Book makes you laugh and cry
June 25, 2015 On Helen's 80th birthday, she took her son aside and sat with him on the edge of her bed, procuring a worn faded letter which she asked him to read alou. more »»
Important to recognize women in science
July 2, 2015 It is quite often that we hear a scientist's name mentioned. more »»
Local farmers markets are open for the season
June 24, 2015 If you're looking for ways to eat fresh and stretch your food dollars, look no further than your local farmers marke. more »»
Planetary movements
April 28, 2015 The glittering constellations of the Adirondack winter skies are plunging into the western horizon quickly. As the sky finally darkens at 9 p.m. more »»
Children's Summer Reading Program begins July 8
June 12, 2015 The 2015 Mary MacIntyre Summer Reading Program will meet on Wednesdays, July 8, 15, and 22, from 10 a.m. until noon. more »»
Images of the Olympic scene
February 7, 2014 Photos from Krasnaya Polyana, Russia... more »»
Partners make progress on invasive species
September 9, 2014 Dear Readers: I will soon begin a new position working on invasive species for the U.S. Department of Interior in Washington D.. more »»
To make the time pass ...
March 11, 2014 Outside the blue jays gather once again in the morning light. Daylight Savings Time has been returned, and our surrounding wildlife knows nothing about our trick of stealing time to play. more »»
Completing the journey
September 17, 2011 In the planning process before I embark on any trip, there are usually a few goals that I want to achieve. more »»
Down in the dirt
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Farewell to summer, hello to autumn and school
September 9, 2008 Welcome one and all to the Brighton Buzz! I must say thank you to all who supported and are supporting me in this venture! And it is with some sadness, yet some joy, I have to report I must move on... more »»
King James, sports and priorities
March 5, 2013 Professional and amateur sports in this country face a lot of pressing, messy issues these days. LeBron James having fun is not one of them. more »»
Health Matters: Errors in patient care
March 28, 2009 The American healthcare system is regarded as the most sophisticated in the world, yet medical errors have been estimated to cause 44,000 to 98,000 deaths in U.S. hospitals each year. more »»
Banana dating application
January 28, 2009 SingleBananas.com Online Dating Application Name: Joe Banana Age: Still green and pretty hard to the touch. more »»
Stride for Prise hosts free, local, therapeutic events
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Government transparency is getting better
February 28, 2012 It's great to see that many local governments are working on complying with a new section of Open Meetings Law that requires them to post online documents that are going to be discussed at meetin. more »»
Misconceptions with the Americans with Disabilities Act
January 31, 2009 When the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted in 1990, people with disabilities saw it as a victory, albeit a small one, it was still something. more »»
Confronting deer control
December 21, 2010 OH, DEER! A series about deer population, Part 3 of 3 --- There are only two options for slowing or reversing the growth of deer populations: decreasing the birth rate or increasing the death rate. more »»
Harvest dinner Oct. 14
September 28, 2011 St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church will have their harvest dinner 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14 in the church hall. more »»
A hard day's night
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Great Probiotic That You Can Travel With.
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I used to have probiotic yoghurt everyday and it used to sooth my digestion a lot since I have IBS. I recently read about the positive results of taking a probiotic which contains clinically proven important bacteria strains in large numbers. I decided to give this a try since I am in Korea at the moment and finding a live culture is difficult here. Also, I was going to travel to Turkey for a couple of weeks and I liked the fact that this product is stable in room temperature. I took a capsule per day for a week and it was amazing. I reduced 2 caps per week for maintenance and I am not having IBS symptoms anymore for the past 2 months. Amazing really. I started using iHerb to be my own doctor and overwhelm my health issues instead of being overwhelmed by them. Check out my iHerb page for my progress and more reviews on various supplements, beauty and grocery products.
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These have been effective for daily health and have worked as well as more expensive brands.
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Book your room at Best Western Cocoa Inn
Business Room, 1 King Bed, Non Smoking, Refrigerator & MicrowaveMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child)
Standard Room, 1 King Bed, SmokingMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child)
Standard Room, 2 Double Beds, SmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Standard Room, 2 Double Beds, Accessible, BathtubMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Standard Room, 2 Double Beds, Accessible, BathtubMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Standard Room, 2 Double Beds, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Standard Room, 1 King Bed, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child)
Standard Room, 2 Double Beds, Accessible, SmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Business Room, 2 Double Beds, Non Smoking, Refrigerator & MicrowaveMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Get an overview of this hotelMotel with free breakfast, near Cocoa Expo Sports Center
Situated in the entertainment district, this motel is 1.1 mi (1.7 km) from Cocoa Expo Sports Center and within 6 mi (10 km) of Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory and Cocoa Village Playhouse. Cocoa Village and Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Property Features
This motel features an outdoor pool, a bar/lounge, and coffee/tea in the lobby. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a business center, dry cleaning, and laundry facilities.
Room Amenities
All 120 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and microwaves, plus free WiFi and cable TV. Guests will also find coffee makers, free local calls, and hair dryers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Hotel Amenities
A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This motel offers access to a business center. Event facilities measure 2650 square feet (239 square meters). This business-friendly motel also offers an outdoor pool, barbecue grills, and multilingual staff. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Free breakfast
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Outdoor pool
- Bar/lounge
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 2650
- Conference space size (meters) - 239
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Picnic area
- Television in lobby
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Number of floors - 2
- Total number of rooms - 120
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor pool
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Laundry facilities
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Free WiFi
- Cable TV service
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Shower/tub combination
- Coffee/tea maker
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Daily housekeeping
- Free local calls
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Free toiletries
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Private bathroom
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
Lindas Lounge - This bar specializes in American cuisine and serves lunch only.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 10 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for USD 10 per night.
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 36 per person (one way)
- Crib (infant bed) fee: USD 10 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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The irony of a federal holiday amidst a lengthy government shutdown.
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SportsCarli Lloyd's hat trick gives US 5-2 win over Japan in Women's World Cup final
Lloyd scored 3 times as the U.S. burst to a four-goal lead in the first 16 minutes
Carli Lloyd lives for the big moment. She had her biggest on Sunday night — and gave the United States its record third Women's World Cup title.
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Ballerina Misty Copeland heading to Broadway's 'On the Town'
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Red Bend Software sues Google
Mobile phone software maker Red Bend Software Inc. is suing Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), claiming the search giant's open-source Chrome browser isn't so open source after all.
According to a lawsuit filed in Boston district court yesterday, Chrome allegedly infringes one of the Waltham company's patents on a method allowing wireless carriers to efficiently push out updates to mobile phone firmware.
Chrome contains an algorithm, called Courgette, designed to allow Google to push out compressed software updates to users more efficiently. Courgette is one of a class of tools called differential compression algorithms, which allow developers to write updates into an existing version of an application, rather than replacing the entire application. According to Google's developer documentation, Courgette is a more efficient way to identify where and how changes must be made in the code.
According to Red Bend, however, Courgette infringes its patent no. 6546552, issued in April, 2003 — one of three U.S. patents the company holds. The patent covers "a method for generating a compact difference result between an old program and a new program," according to its abstract.
Red Bend is seeking treble damages, alleging Google has known about the conflicting patent since September 7. Further damage occurred, Red Bend alleges, when Google published the Courgette source code in order to allow access for members of its open-source developer community.
A Red Bend spokeswoman declined to comment for this article, citing the ongoing litigation. A Google spokesman said the company had not yet been served with the complaint and therefore could not comment on the allegations.
Red Bend controls 53 percent of the market for software that allows cellular providers to do firmware-over-the-air (FOTA) updates, according to a report out last month from the research group Ovum. The company, which is a subsidiary of Israel-based Red Bend Ltd., closed its fifth round of venture capital financing last April. Backers Greylock Partners and Coral Capital Management put in $10 million, bringing the company's total investment to $34 million.


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