poverty Videos
 View Video | What is poverty? (three-minute video) Description: www.tearfund.org - 1.3 billion people live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than 60 pence each day. WHY SHOULD YOU CARE? The Bible is full of God's demands on behalf of the poor. A concern for the poor is at the very centre of who God is and this suggests it should be high on our agenda too. Rating: 4.8590603/5 Length: 174 Seconds |
 View Video | Faces of Poverty Changing Description: Last week, the Census Bureau released new figures showing that nearly one in six Americans lives in poverty _ a record 46.2 million people. The poverty rate, pegged at 15.1 percent, is the highest of any major industrialized nation. (Sept. 19) Rating: 4.869565/5 Length: 208 Seconds |
 View Video | Poverty Description: every 3 seconds a child dies as a result of extreme poverty...think about it...and do something Rating: 4.7210684/5 Length: 274 Seconds |
 View Video | Extreme Poverty and Hunger Description: A short video outlining extreme poverty and hunger, and it being one of the United Nation's Millennium Goals Rating: 4.499239/5 Length: 160 Seconds |
 View Video | Poverty: Where We All Started Description: The fourth episode of PRI's popular POP 101 series, this video takes a fresh, humorous approach to the demographic issues facing the world today. Be sure to watch the first video: www.youtube.com the second video: www.youtube.com and the third video: www.youtube.com Rating: 4.004/5 Length: 146 Seconds |
 View Video | Poverty tells many stories Description: European Filmschool / 1st place: Director: Isabel Prahl Production Company: Academy of Media Arts Cologne Country: Germany Rating: 4.968566/5 Length: 69 Seconds |
 View Video | Into Poverty: Living on One Dollar (OFFICIAL TRAILER) Description: Four friends from the United States spent their summer living in Guatemala on one dollar a day to try and understand the reality of poverty first hand. To pre-order the film and learn more about Living on One's poverty alleviation efforts, please visit: www.LivingonOne.org Join the movement Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Rating: 4.9215684/5 Length: 131 Seconds |
 View Video | Why Are 46 Million Americans Living in Poverty? Description: Read the transcript: to.pbs.org The latest Census measurement of US poverty out Tuesday found that 46 million Americans live in poverty. Ray Suarez examines what's behind the highest level of poverty in America since 1993 with Douglas Besharov of the University of Maryland and Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution. Rating: 5.0/5 Length: 458 Seconds |
 View Video | Paul Ryan corrects those confused on combating poverty Description: Compassion for those in need is not a function of how much borrowed money the federal government throws at unreformed, unaccountable programs. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan budget.house.gov Rating: 4.769231/5 Length: 130 Seconds |
 View Video | Will Extreme Poverty Ever End? Description: Google Tech Talk January 13, 2012 Presented by Jake Harriman. ABSTRACT $2.3 trillion in aid and thousands of NGOs have worked to ease the suffering of the poor; yet 1.4 billion people still remain locked in the cycle of extreme poverty. In the face of such an enormous, global challenge, why on earth would anyone start another NGO? Hear Jake Harriman, former Force Recon Platoon Commander for the Marine Corps, share his riveting story on how he was awakened to the crisis of extreme poverty while fighting the war on terror in Iraq; how he enrolled at Stanford's Graduate School of Business to begin Nuru International; and how 10000 people in Kuria, Kenya have already lifted themselves out of extreme poverty. Jake will give insight on Nuru's unique approach to fighting extreme poverty. www.nuruinternational.org Speaker Info: Jake Harriman attended the US Naval Academy and served over seven years in the Marine Corps as a Platoon Commander in both the Infantry and an elite unit of Special Operations called Force Recon. During his career Jake completed two combat tours in Iraq, assisted in disaster relief operations in Indonesia and Sri Lanka after the Asian tsunami, and witnessed the fight against terror firsthand around the world. From Jake's experiences he came to believe that the war against terrorism won't be won on the battlefield alone. It must be won by eradicating the contributing causes of terrorism: disenfranchisement, lack of education, and extreme poverty. Jake left ... Rating: 4.6/5 Length: 3657 Seconds |