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New Internationalist (Popularity:  )
http://www.newint.org
Reports on issues of world poverty and inequality, and debates and campaigns for radical change.
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Society - Politics - News and Media - Progressive and Left
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The University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) (Popularity: )
http://utip.gov.utexas.edu
The UTIP is a research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial changes around the world. Techniques are applied to data from the United States, the OECD, and UNIDO, with interesting ...
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Science - Social Sciences - Economics - Consumption and Wealth
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Entropy and Inequality (Popularity: )
http://poorcity.richcity.org/
A comparison of different measures of income & wealth inequality, with a focus on entropy measures. Shows changes in the global disparity of income using these measures.
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Science - Social Sciences - Economics - Labor Economics
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Fighting Poverty, One Business at a Time. (Popularity: )
http://www.trickleup.org/
The Trickle Up Program is an international non-profit organization dedicated to reducing poverty by providing low-income people around the world with the opportunity to create their own micro-enterprises.
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Society - Issues - Poverty
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Poverty and Race Research Action Council (Popularity: )
http://www.prrac.org/
PRRAC fosters and supports collaborations among researchers and advocates effectively addressing problems faced by people living at the intersection of poverty and race.
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Society - Issues - Poverty
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Related:
Inequality
- Global Inequality
- Social Inequality
- Gender Inequality
- Income Inequality
National Center for Children in Poverty (Popularity: )
http://www.nccp.org/
The Center, which is affiliated with Columbia University, produces reports, fact sheets, and press material that highlight strategies to end child poverty in the United States.
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Society - Issues - Children, Youth and Family - Advocacy Groups
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Christ Kitchen - Helping Women in Poverty (Popularity: )
http://www.christkitchen.org/
Spokane, Washington. Non-profit ministry providing work, job training and fellowship for women living in poverty by production and sales of food gift baskets.
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Society - Religion and Spirituality - Christianity - Organizations
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Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political & Economic Inequalities (Popularity: )
http://www.journalofpoverty.org/
Quarterly journal dedicated to research on poverty beyond narrow definitions based on policy thresholds. Current table of contents available on-line.
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Science - Social Sciences - Sociology - Journals
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Michigan Poverty Law Program (Popularity: )
http://www.mplp.org/
Resources for civil legal aid programs and other poverty law advocates in Michigan.
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Society - Law - Organizations - Legal Aid
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Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (Popularity: )
http://www.ocap.ca/
Militant anti-poverty group led by John Clarke. Involved in a campaign of protest and direct action to fight the federal, Ontario and Toronto governments for higher wages and welfare benefits, plus for tenant and immigrant rights.
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Society - Politics - Anarchism - Direct Action
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Global Envision (Popularity: )
http://www.globalenvision.org/
A web initiative with news and information on globalization, world business, poverty, global growth, and world trade. It aims to take the global free market system as a starting point for reducing world poverty.
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Society - Politics - Globalization
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WIDER Home Page (Popularity: )
http://www.wider.unu.edu/
The United Nations University website. Provides links to download the World Income Inequality database.
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Science - Social Sciences - Economics - Economic History
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Campaign 2000 - End Child Poverty in Canada (Popularity: )
http://www.campaign2000.ca
A cross-Canada public education movement to build public awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000.
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Society - Issues - Children, Youth and Family - Advocacy Groups
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CHOICE Humanitarian (Popularity: )
http://www.choicehumanitarian.org/donate
CHOICE Humanitarian is ending poverty by focusing on sustainable village development. This humanitarian work helps connect villages to life changing resources tax deductible donations, Corporate giving. Our overriding goal is to end extreme poverty and ...
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Society - Advice
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Womens Rights (Popularity: )
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/100011/womens_rights.html
Campaign for womens rights with ActionAid UK: Women around the world are more likely to live in poverty, simply because they are women. Despite these injustices, women everywhere are standing up to claim their rights and to fight poverty - and ActionAid ...
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Society - People - Women - Women's Rights
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Jaipur Rugs Foundation (Popularity: )
http://www.jaipurrugs.org
Jaipur Rugs Foundation (JRF) is a voluntary, non-profit and secular organization, registered under Public Trust Act, which was established in response to the growing needs in the development sector to organize people at grassroots level for alleviating ...
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Education - Organizations
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Firefly International (Popularity: )
http://www.fireflyinternational.org
Works with vulnerable and marginalised groups to combat social division and inequality around the world. Projects, volunteer opportunities, and resources for community projects worldwide.
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Society - Organizations - Development
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HAZnet (Popularity: )
http://www.haznet.org.uk
An online news/forum for Health Action Zone or HAZ partnership between NHS, local authority, voluntary, and business agencies to share ideas in reducing health inequality in England.
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Health - Public Health and Safety - Organizations
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Carolina Population Center (Popularity: )
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/
Research on population issues, including family, fertility, and children and population diversity and inequality. Site includes descriptions of center sub-divisions.
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Reference - Education - Colleges and Universities - North America
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Department of Sociology (Popularity: )
http://sociology.princeton.edu/
Interested in spanning the sociology of culture, economic sociology and organizations, migration and development, social demography, social inequality, and regional and comparative studies.
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Reference - Education - Colleges and Universities - North America
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