The number of people living on the edge of emergency has rocketed to 220 million.
The world's poorest are paying a high price for the international aid system's failure to address factors keeping them in chronic poverty.
With food price rises adding to the problem many people just dont have enough to eat.
Visit http://www.careinternational.org.uk/ to find out more about our work. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Duration : 2 min 48 sec
In a nation where ministers and head of state receive more than 10 times the salary of US president, the middle and lower income groups in singapore feeling the pinch in rising costs.
Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong
Salary as Prime Minister $2million yearly
Salary as Finance Minister $1.2million yearly
Variable Bonus: 6months salary minimum yearly
Full Medical Benefits – Private Specialist Consultant on regular standby – Yearly cost to tax payers $200,000
Security cost: Approximately $1.5million yearly
First class travel and stays at top hotels when he travels on business trips
United States of America
President, George Bush: Increased to US$400,000 on Jan. 20, 2001, with US$50,000 expenses
Vice President, Richard Cheney: US$202,900
Cabinet Secretaries: US$157,000 – 186,600
Shaha Ali Riza, Paul Wolfowitz’s girlfriend – $193,590 (she now reports to Liz Cheney, daughter of Richard Cheney in the US State Department
Condoleezza Rice – $186,600
United Kingdom
Prime Minister: US$170,556
Ministers: US$146,299
Australia
Prime Minister: US$137,060
Deputy Prime Minister: US$111,439
Treasurer: US$102,682
Duration : 0:2:41
This was just done on a whim, when I watched some punk rip rubber down the street in a Lex SUV. Food prices. Gas prices. No insurance. Freebies for the irresponsible. Rents. Cellphones. Even in BREAD! Everything is ridiculous high! Average Joe cant live nomore!! Its impossible to be able to make ends meet on the basic salary of today, even for a skilled worker. Im single, no kids, and no woman for the time. Still trying to make it is OUT of my OWN budget? Cuts need to be made people. Sacrfifices and bailouts by the govt., to save the middle man or lower-middle even, like me,
Duration : 0:9:19
This ad piece developed by the Iowa Renewable Fuels ociation and the Iowa Corn Growers ociation highlights the positive impacts of ethanol for Iowa and the United States.
Ethanol is keeping gas prices at least 50 cents lower at the pump than what it would be otherwise. Ethanol saves the typical Iowa family $1,000 each year. Ethanol reduces greenhouses gases and our dependence on foreign oil.
Skyrocketing gas prices –not ethanol– are responsible for rising food costs and hurting the American consumer. For more truth, visit www.iowarfa.org/truth
Duration : 0:0:30
http://www.kcts9.org/programs/productions/atm/archive/305
“About the Money” with host Josephine Cheng airs Tuesdays at 7:30pm on KCTS-9.
Learn cost-saving techniques to lower your monthly food budget with Financial Consultant Cindy Rungerbalas.
Airdate: Oct. 21, 2008
Duration : 0:5:25
