The Hurricane of Poverty
I admit it. I just started to read the New York Times after I got an article sent to me on Katrina. Now it's difficult to stop, when articles like this one gets sent for free to my e-mail. Nicholas D Kristof writes that
The columnist tells us that the number of poor people has risen with 17 per cent under President Bush, and that the infant mortality rate in the US capital is twice as high as in China's capital. African-American babies in Washington DC has less chance to survive their first year than babies in urban parts of Kerala, India.
We need more social justice, not less!
The scenes in New Orleans reminded me of the suffering I saw after a similar storm killed 130,000 people in Bangladesh in 1991 - except that Bangladesh's government showed more urgency in trying to save its most vulnerable citizens. But Hurricane Katrina also underscores a much larger problem: the growing number of Americans trapped in a never-ending cyclone of poverty.
The columnist tells us that the number of poor people has risen with 17 per cent under President Bush, and that the infant mortality rate in the US capital is twice as high as in China's capital. African-American babies in Washington DC has less chance to survive their first year than babies in urban parts of Kerala, India.
We need more social justice, not less!
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