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October 31, 2007


October 17, 2007

  • The Puzzle of Malaria in Altitude-Cooled Nairobi
  • Low Pay Leads to Risky Retirement
  • Malawian Businesswomen Trapped in Informal Trade
  • Help Kids Learn: Invite, Reveal, Stimulate
  • World Bank Neglects Sub-Saharan Agriculture
  • Christmas Wheels for Camden Children
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Depression Reported by 7% of Workforce
  • Prisoners in Pink
  • More Small Hauls

October 3, 2007

  • A Healthier World is Within Reach
  • To Restore a Camden Oasis
  • African Floods Augment Climate-Change Anxieties
  • Friday Backpacks Prevent Weekend Hunger
  • Tobacco and Poverty
  • Foster Care Funds Don't Cover Parents' Costs
  • Chinatowns Move to the 'Burbs
  • Permafrost Seed Bank Protects Vital Species
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Instead of a Little to Many, a Lot to One
  • New Jersey Legislators Tackle Housing Troubles
  • Humanitarian 'Nightmare' Already Grips Iraq

September 12, 2007

  • Ten Challenges for Humanitarian Orgs
  • Clothing Bins: Donor Beware!
  • Juvenile Justice Disarray a Threat to Liberian Peace
  • New School Wows East Camden
  • The Benefits of Biofuels for Poor Farmers
  • A Penny Saved is a Welfare Cent Lost
  • GPS and Handhelds Help Contain Malaria
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Security Guards and Taxi Drivers Unite
  • Mother Teresa 'Miracle' Patient Accuses Nuns
  • More Jobs, Less Poverty

August 29, 2007

  • A Statistical Portrait of American Poverty
  • Access to Toilets a Life-or-Death Matter
  • Shelters Especially Dangerous for Queers
  • Genital Surgery Helps Burkina's Mutilated Women
  • The Most Air-Polluted Town in America
  • Flawed Land Scheme Gives Amazon Forest to Loggers
  • New Camden School Includes Community Center
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Acid Attacks on Women in India Prompt Protests
  • The Undocumented Body of Christ
  • Medicare Drugs Still Too Costly for Many

August 15, 2007

  • Extreme Rain Raises Fear of Horrific Famine in NK
  • Katrina Tax Breaks Fund Luxury Alabama Condos
  • Mosquito-Eating Fish Evaluated as Malaria Preventive
  • Ten Schools Picked to Pilot 'Vision' Reform
  • NGO Brings Sustainable Lighting to Poor Indians
  • Habitat's Largest Project in Northeast US
  • Mauritania Passes Anti-Slavery Law
  • Prisoners Substitute for Missing Migrant Farmworkers
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Native Languages Rise Up Against English
  • Camden City Kids' Day at the Lake
  • No True 'Ordem e Progresso' without Educational Equality

August 1, 2007

  • Organics for Everyone
  • 11-Year-Old AIDS Icon Inspires Upcoming Movie
  • Plastic Bottles Help Make Water Safe
  • A Cross-Country Journey for Justice
  • Native Brazilian Villages Go Online
  • Butterfly Farming Generates Income, Protects Forests
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Mining Giants Put 'Profit Before People'
  • Sin Taxes Disproportionately Burden the Poor
  • Kamchatka Poverty Threatens Pacific Salmon

July 18, 2007

  • NJ to Get Tough on Greenhouse Gases
  • Zimbabweans Risk All for a New Life
  • No Public Good from 'Cleansing' Pennsauken Mart
  • Lack of Health Infrastructure Afflicts Third World
  • Hungry in Lousiana
  • Micro-Insurance a Big Help for Mexico's Poor
  • Rutgers' Influence Grows in Camden City
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • The Child-Prostitution Capital of the Western Hemisphere
  • New Jersey's Legal Landmark
  • Stop AIDS '08

July 4, 2007

  • Darfur Heralds Era of Climate Wars
  • Troubled Home Found to be Better than Foster Care
  • Landmark Convictions for Use of Child Soldiers
  • Lack of Members Kills Camden YMCA
  • America Off Track
  • Southeast Asia Battles Dengue Surge
  • 'Food Desert' Dwellers Get Some Relief
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • The End of Cheap Food
  • Iraqis Flee, Find Safety and Little Else
  • The Solution: A Commons Sector

June 20, 2007

  • More Grads Serve Poor While Orgs Compete For Them
  • Bono and Friends Open '08 Anti-Poverty Campaign
  • Cosby's Message
  • US Confronts Own Allies on Human Trafficking
  • Wal-Mart's Public Policy Dilemma
  • Methadone Maintenance to be Introduced in Ukraine
  • What Makes an Activist?
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Wealthy Universities Recruit Low-Income Students
  • Earth Loses Major CO2 Sink

June 6, 2007

  • NYC Mayor Tries Cash Incentives to Reduce Poverty
  • To Save the Planet, Work Less
  • Crime Down, Surveillance Technology Credited
  • Children Raise Funds for Post-Explosion Recovery
  • Tax Credit Omits Many with Very Low Incomes
  • AIDS: Between Patents and Patients
  • Camden to Vet all Redevelopment Plans
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Welfare Reform: An Evaluation
  • Weather Channel Faces Global Warming Frankly

May 16, 2007

  • Rising Seas Take Bite After Bite out of Bangladesh
  • When Public Housing Projects Go Bad
  • Baghdad Residents Step In to Fill Aid Gaps
  • Uninsured Pay Much More at NJ Hospitals
  • Adding to Afghanistan's Agonies: AIDS
  • Coach of Winning Teams Brings Sports Camps to Camden
  • The Poor and the Planet Need Cities' Help
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • US and Global Water Wars Loom
  • US Undermines Its Own AIDS Strategy
  • More Small Hauls

May 2, 2007

  • Education Singled Out as Key to Longer Life
  • How to Make Sure Your Giving Actually Helps
  • Boycott Punishes People in Palestine
  • Welfare State Growing Despite Overhauls
  • Cattle Interests Threaten Uncontacted Tribes
  • To Make a Sustainable City
  • Seminary Principal Chides Greedy Church Leaders
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Donated Freezers Start West African Micro-Businesses
  • A Step Forward for Universal Health Coverage
  • A Lesson in Open-Borders Arithmetic
  • More Small Hauls

 
  With This Issue LNN Completes Its Tenth Year  

April 18, 2007

  • Open Markets Make Fisherfolk Poor
  • Food Stamps Buy Less and Less
  • Money Transfer Service Wows Kenya
  • Big Medical Step Starts with NYC's Poor
  • Mars Melt Hints at Solar Cause for Warming, Says One
  • CHIP to Expand -- The Battle is Over How Much
  • The Origins of Modern Protest Strategy and Tactics
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Time for a Raise
  • Low-Cost Government-Built Homes Falling Apart
  • How Well Do Health Coverage Tax Credits Help Displaced Workers

April 4, 2007

  • WWF Study Exposes Freshwater Crisis
  • Over 40 Million US Jobs -- 1 in 3 -- Pay Low Wages
  • GM Mosquito Resists Malaria, Out-Breeds Carriers
  • Students Try Eating Like Food Stamp Recipients
  • Where 'Staying With Relatives' Means Near-Slave Labor
  • Disabled People Still Get Dumped
  • A Transatlantic Call for Slavery Reparation
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • South Jersey Fundraiser Helps Educate in Dominican Republic
  • 'To Support My Son and To Maintain My Status in School ...'
  • Vitally Needed Playground Targeted for Demolition
  • More Small Hauls

March 14, 2007

  • Violence Against Girls Worldwide
  • Urban Indian Health Clinics Face Federal Axe
  • Shop-to-Aid Program Not So Helpful to Africans
  • True Economic Security: Assets Not Income
  • The Village Health Promoter
  • Don't Cripple Eminent Domain
  • Why Do Good? Brain Study Offers Clues
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • His Domain To The End
  • Home Improvement Program Expands in Camden
  • Include Nonprofits in NJ Pay-to-Play Rules

February 28, 2007

  • NCC Gulf Commission Gives Governments Low Marks
  • Big Test for AIDS Vaccine
  • HUD Gets New View of Who's Homeless
  • Pay-Toilet Program a Model for Developing World
  • Eligible Immigrants Not Taking Food Stamps
  • Most Bird Flu Found at Factory Farms, Not in Backyards
  • Reduced-Price School Meals to Cost Zero
  • Chinese Carbon Trading to Address Poverty, Too
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Global Risks Are Outpacing Ability to Mitigate Them
  • Poorer Renters to Get Largest of Tax Breaks
  • India's Economy Could Be Bigger Than USA's by 2050

February 7, 2007

  • Seeking Firewood, They Find Danger
  • Sexual Orientation a Big Factor in Youth Homelessness
  • Nobel Winner Gives Poor People Room to Grow
  • Study to Examine Diet's Effects on Prisoner Behavior
  • Dams Threaten Fishing Tribe
  • Hate Groups' Reply to Immigrant Protests: Growth
  • Faith Groups Cited as Key to Scaling AIDS Efforts Up
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Ten 'Most Underreported' Stories of 2006
  • 'Lost' Wallets Test Honesty
  • Prison and Work: A Comparison

January 24, 2007

  • Recycling At Its Worst
  • Nonpartisan Study Shows Effects of Bush Tax Cuts
  • New Grant Program to Promote Remittance Services
  • A Pantry Full of Free Food and Legal Help
  • Un-Schoolers Defy Camden District
  • UNESCO Pushes for More Literacy Teachers
  • Residents President Challenges Council President
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Tribespeople Blockade and Win Against Peruvian Petro-Giant
  • Matrimonio: 26 Conclusiones de las Ciencias Sociales
  • Iraq-War Tech Brought to Bronx

January 10, 2007

  • Global Warming Swallows Its First Inhabited Island
  • Physicians Embrace a New Role: Advocate
  • Sued by a Camdenite, Rental Giant Loses US Appeal
  • Mexicans Trained as Leaders Against Human Trafficking
  • Schwarzenegger Proposes Mandatory Health Insurance
  • Drug-Resistant TB Exceeds Previous Estimates
  • Redevelopment Czar Quits
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • O Little Slum of Bethlehem
  • Youth Push for Discounted Transit Pass
  • Arsenic Poisoning Wells in Burkina Faso

December 6, 2006

  • Survivors of Sulfuric Acid Attacks
  • Teen Birthrate Drops to Record Low
  • Boycott Makes Palestinian Poverty Far Worse
  • Camden Police Executive Outlines Strategy
  • Bush On World AIDS Day
  • Outgoing Camden Czar Writes About Wrong Moves
  • Sports Stars Play Offence Against Hunger
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Camden County Gets Thumbs-Up for Its Youth Detention Reforms
  • More Small Hauls
  • Bolivia Passes Sweeping Land Redistribution Bill

September 13, 2006

  • A Century of Change in US Consumer Spending
  • Hundreds of Insolvent Hospital Patients Detained
  • Hunger Chews Its Way Into Cleveland Suburbs
  • Modernization at the Expense of the Poor
  • 300 Camden Homes to See Improvement Aid
  • Community Center Helps Darfurians Recover
  • Anti-Casino Fervor Grows in South Philadelphia
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • NYC Children Struggle with Hunger, Obesity
  • Children Produce Radio in Mallorca
  • NASA Satellites Find Balance in South America's Water Cycle

August 30, 2006

  • Amid America's Highest Incomes, A City with the Lowest
  • Rich Nations Rated on How Much They Help Poor Nations
  • Muslim Charities Face Fear-Based Money Shortages
  • Human Trafficking As Seen Up Close in Prague
  • Organic Label Doesn't Mean Farmworkers Well-Treated
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Iraqi Oil Union Workers Fight Privatization
  • Adolescents Who Abort Have Higher Mental Health Risk
  • Senegal, Spain Agree to Joint Immigration Patrols

August 16, 2006

  • Urban 'Food Deserts' Cause Added Disease and Death
  • The End of the IMF Era
  • Cramer Hill Critics Agree to Modified Redev'mt Plan
  • Earthquake Relief and the Transoceanic Bomb Plot
  • Health Care on a Wing and a Prayer
  • President Clinton Says Global Fund Best for AIDS
  • Immigration Disregarded as Job Killer
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Tsunami and Katrina Relief Efforts Continue
  • Pinelands Creative Workshop Opens Youth Summer Program
  • More Small Hauls

August 2, 2006

  • Welfare Reform: Some Improvements, Serious Problems
  • Sanctions Could Direly Harm North Korea's Persecuted
  • A 'Crawling Disaster' of Mounting Hidden Hunger
  • Congress Urged to Save Original American Languages
  • Camden Residents Slam Housing Officials
  • Indigenous Rights Declaration Approved by Council
  • Poverty and Murder in Robeson County NC
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • School Counselors See Poverty's Effects in SD
  • On the Edge: Juarez Femicides
  • Ayoreo Indians Denounce Illegal Logging

July 19, 2006

  • Black Brazilians Demand Racial Equity
  • Housing Authority to Cut Already-Deficient Services
  • Bamboo a Material of Choice for Reconstruction
  • NJ Urbanites Losing Access to Health Care
  • Why the Climate Change Alarm Fails to Rouse
  • Marriage Gap Accentuates Inequality
  • Laura Bush Dances with HIV Orphans
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRA
  • Farm Aid Coming to Camden

July 5, 2006

  • The Day Robin Hood Kidnapped John Wayne
  • Citizens Demand Moratorium on Eminent Domain
  • Where Tree Plantings and People Power Meet
  • The Basic Income Guarantee
  • The Fictitious Palestinians
  • It's Time to Break One of the Last Taboos: Money
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRA
  • Universal Living Wage: The Misbeliefs

June 14, 2006

  • World Needs 430 Million New Jobs by 2015
  • Earned Income Tax Credit Now Advanceable
  • Call Centers Brighten Employment Picture in Tunisia
  • Police Forcibly Shut Down Largest Urban Farm in US
  • Diseases Moving North to Areas Unprepared for Them
  • Bed Tax Bad News for Many South Jersey Hospitals
  • Hawking Urges Humanity to Colonize Mars to Survive
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • UN Agency Boosts Palestinian Food Help
  • High Density Antidote to Sprawl and Congestion

May 24, 2006

  • US Plan to Lure Nurses May Hurt Poor Nations
  • Don't Let Phone and Cable Giants Seize the Net
  • Cocaine and the Exploitation of Poverty
  • US, Leader Against AIDS Abroad, Fails at Home
  • For and Against Water Privatization
  • Religious Left Struggles to Find Unifying Message
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Warning Signs of Gang Involvement
  • NJ Cops Need Non-Lethal Alternatives

May 10, 2006

  • 'Devil's Drug' Disrupts, Destroys in Navajo Nation
  • Supermayor vs. Activist on Cramer Hill Plan
  • Where to Relocate Out of Range of Climate Change
  • Travelogue: Nepalese Detention Center
  • Utah Enacts Early Emancipation Option for Teens
  • Teens Take National Quiz on Pregnancy
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • A Few More Small Hauls

April 26, 2006

  • New Global Warming Hypotheses Dismisses CO2
  • Judge Rejects Lawsuit Over Cement Plant
  • Senator Hears Tribal Leaders On Reservation Economics
  • Mourning to Resistance: Good Friday '06
  • New Process Holds Promise for World Water Supply
  • On NJ's Proposed Higher Education Cuts
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • The Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline
  • Basic Income Guarantee Pilot Bill Emerges

March 22, 2006

  • Good News and Bad: World Water Day
  • Katrina Homeless March, Confront FEMA
  • China's Terrible City-Country Gap
  • More Evangelicals Take Up Foreign Causes
  • Youngest Haitians' Mortal Perils
  • 'Wal-mart Bill' Seeks Health Benefits
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • America's Younger Workers Losing Ground on Income
  • The Deceitfulness of Riches

March 8, 2006

  • Grassroots Christianity Sweeps the Non-West
  • Altruism Study Turns Up Dark Side
  • Left and Right Unite on Eminent Domain
  • States Press for US Action on Illegal Immigrants
  • On the Purim Holiday Tradition 'Matanot l'Evyonim'
  • Bad News About Geico: Low Class Means High Rates
  • Kill School Fees to Revive Schools
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRA
  • Social Entrepreneurship Video Debut

February 22, 2006

  • Growing Hunger: The Struggle of Small Farmers
  • 'Devastation Tourists' in New Orleans
  • 'Make Poverty History' Missed the Point
  • When the Nest Egg Cracks
  • No Blood For Bling
  • Golden Parachutes Funded by NJ Taxpayers
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRA
  • Camden Woman Gets State Child-Services Post

February 8, 2006

  • Lack of Legal Wood Keeps Tsunami Survivors in Tents
  • Legislation Would Ban 'Have You Ever Been Convicted?'
  • Also Felled by Pak Quake: Anti-Girl Barriers
  • City Life Gets Meaner for US Homeless
  • Afghan Media People Get Help With Skills
  • Boarded-Up Former Tavern to Become Vanguard Theater Venue
  • Long-Time Homeless Woman Hosts TV Talk Show
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • From A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • What's Jewish About Protecting the Environment?

January 25, 2006

  • South Asia Human Rights 'Worsen'
  • Affordable Rent Crisis Declared in NJ
  • Saudi Foundation Sees Bigger Need for Housing
  • Corporate Strategy Against Activists Revealed
  • Insufficiently Discussed: Population
  • US Prescription Plan Not Reaching the Neediest
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRA
  • US Food Aid in Iraq

January 11, 2006

  • They Fight Al Qaeda by Building Schools
  • Three Decades of Resistance to War
  • Economic Strategy in Iraq
  • 'The Most Productive Program' in Camden Seeks Help
  • UN Denies Building 'Substandard' Evictee Housing
  • Bush Renews Law to Fight Human Trafficking
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS
  • Community Health Center Reaches Out to Businesses
  • 5,000 Tax-Delinquent in Camden

December 28, 2005

  • Food Crisis Feared as World's Fertile Land Runs Out
  • Candlelight Vigil Highlights Homeless Plight
  • Hunger Kills '6 Million Children a Year'
  • Lender Honored for Helping Smallest Businesses
  • Famine Kills Humans and Animals in Kenya
  • Anti-Shoppers Stage Christmas Spectacle in Disneyland
  • IMF Clears Debt Relief for 19 Countries
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • An Uphill Year for Delaware Environmental Advocates
  • The Heart and Soul of Her Community

December 14, 2005

  • A Better Key Indicator than Gross Domestic Product
  • Camden Past and Future
  • Between North Korean Hunger and Chinese Sex Slavery
  • New Homeless Count Covers 50+ Counties and Cities
  • Kenyan Women Improve Reading and Business Skills
  • Bronx Shuns Politics, Welcomes Venezuelan Oil Help
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • States Scramble to Help Needy with Rising Heat Costs
  • State Department Not a Good Head for US Aid

November 30, 2005

  • Chinese Peasants Revolt
  • CT Overtakes NJ in Wage Rankings
  • Haiti's Justice System in Collapse
  • Food Bank Shuts Down Because Nobody Needs It
  • The Shame of Famine
  • Former Gaza Residents in Hotel Limbo
  • Camden The Most Dangerous [Suburbs] in America
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS:
  • AIDS Considered 'Greatest Threat'
  • Jesus Became Poor to Make You Rich

November 16, 2005

  • Equatorial Guinea: Oil Riches, Human Decline
  • Culture Center to Shut Down
  • African Lakes Under More and More Strain
  • Privatized Welfare Turns Needy Away
  • In Ten African Countries, Polio Gone
  • Ha Naa'Dli Youth Center Reopens as Boys and Girls Club
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Science Education Made Relevant in Rural South Africa
  • More Small Hauls

November 2, 2005

  • Millions More Environmental Refugees in the Making
  • Former Life-Net Radio Star Beaten and Kicked By Cops
  • Camden Copies Philly to Make Streets Clean Not Mean
  • Under-$100 Personal Computer Design Unveiled
  • Special-Needs Schools Badly Overseen, Say Watchers
  • North Korea Pushes for Less Dependence on Foreign Food
  • Gulf Coast Wage Protection Restored
  • LNN Small Hauls
    EXTRAS:
  • Government Neglect, Water-Contamination Disaster
  • 'A Billion Will Die' from Smoking

 

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