December 1, 2011 6:56 PM
Tag: Poverty
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For China’s ‘Left-Behind Kids,’ A Free Lunch
NPR’s Louisa Lim reports on journalist Deng Fei’s efforts to provide nutritious lunches for schoolchildren in China’s countryside. The children are caught on the wrong side of China’s wealth divide: most have at least one parent who has moved away to work, some are several inches shorter than the urban average due to malnutrition, and there is inequality even in the programJanuary 27, 2012 8:55 PM
China to Raise Poverty Threshold
On Tuesday the central government announced that they would raise the rural poverty line from the 2009 per-capita threshold
Photos: The "Rat Tribe" of Beijing
In air raid shelters and tunnels below Beijing, migrant workers, young graduates, and other workers who can’t afford
November 16, 2011 11:53 PM
China's Rural Poor Left Stranded as Urbanites Race Ahead
The Guardian follows up on their report on the “breakneck” speed of China’s urbanization with a look at
October 3, 2011 10:43 PM
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