Poverty: You Too?

"We were poor but happy"; "'The poor are always with us', Jesus said". "We dare be poor for a' that".
Not much to hang a post on there. Cliche, Christ & Burns.
Anyway, having marched shoulder-to-shoulder with Bono et al in 2005 as we Made Poverty History it was refreshing to see him on the front page of a magazine that wasn't Mojo or Q. The magazine was New Internationalist. Not your usual Bono habitat I would have thought, unless to be seen carrying a copy whilst haranguing G8 (G1) leaders re their hypocrisy. See the Tax Justice issue here. Better still, subscribe.
Anyway, we information professionals (sic) are only the messengers; it's for yous academics to use the information we supply. And if you think that poverty is having to make do with a two-year old iPod or PS2, then there's some stuff here that you should read. Especially you Mr Daily Mail Man.

New Internationalist - http://www.newint.org/
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation - http://www.jrf.org.uk/
Oxfam - http://www.oxfam.org.uk/

...and meanwhile at United Nations, Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, & sundry business & government leaders pledge $16bn to help eradicate world poverty. That would barely buy you a decent stake in a failed & failing GreedMcBank!