Reblogging in case you missed this yesterday.
Beyond 7 billion: After remaining stable for most of human history, the world’s population has exploded over the last two centuries. The boom is not over: The biggest generation in history is just entering its childbearing years. The coming wave will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries.
This is one of the biggest projects coming out of The Times this year. Read the stories, watch the videos, look through the photos — the collection is a beast. And let us know what you think.
test reblogged from latimes
Beyond 7 billion: After remaining stable for most of human history, the world’s population has exploded over the last two centuries. The boom is not over: The biggest generation in history is just entering its childbearing years. The coming wave will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries.
This is one of the biggest projects coming out of The Times this year. Read the stories, watch the videos, look through the photos — the collection is a beast. And let us know what you think.
Caught in the cycle of poverty: Choices, challenges and chaos keep undermining a woman’s attempt to escape the struggles her mother and grandmother faced. She wants to provide a better life for her children but seems not to know how.
“My mother struggled, my grandma struggled and I am struggling,” Cole said. “Hopefully they will see what we went through as a family and it makes them want to be better and go to school and graduate so they don’t have to struggle.”
Their struggles often involve housing. Cole and her family have briefly stayed in an old van, in a motel and, for one night, on skid row. “I try not to cry in front of my kids,” she said. “I cried.”
Late last year, Cole was paying $400 to rent a room in South Los Angeles, where the whole family slept. But the roommate complained about the noise and the mess, and she eventually kicked them out.
Photo: Cole, in relief and joy, embraces boyfriend Juan Sena after learning that they had gotten the new one-bedroom apartment. Credit: Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times
A record 46.2 million Americans live in poverty, Census Bureau says.
Photo: Radio co-hosts Tavis Smiley & Cornel West begin their “Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience.” Credit: Earl Gibson III / Associated Press
Latin American women must meet conditions such as attending nutrition classes and taking their children for medical checkups in order to receive payments. So far, the results are encouraging.
As the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown slash roughly $8 billion from the state budget, few places will feel the impact as deeply as Tulare County, the welfare capital of the Golden State. For the Dickersons, a formerly middle-class family now struggling to find employment, the coming $60 reduction in monthly welfare payments forces a choice between food, rent or electricity.
Photo: Keera Dickerson, 10, paints the trim outside of the family home while Terry, 4, plays inside. More photos of the Dickerson family on Framework. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times
